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Jack works with Assistant Producer Fred Feldkamp, scripter on both Crusade pictures,* who freshened up his knowledge of the Pacific theater on a trip to Tokyo for talks with surviving enemy foot soldiers and officers. In one interview, he found that the Japanese ex-officer, with whom he was talking, had directed mortar fire on the town of Garapan, Saipan, where Feldkamp, a World War II Marine Corps combat correspondent had been crouching in a hole ducking the fragments...
...hour work week, Writer Feldkamp has added time for editing the late humourist Will Cuppy's bestseller, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, and the forthcoming, How to Get from January to December...
...until the German Wehrmacht ran him out of Paris - and as a SHAEF correspondent during the battle for Europe. His associate producer, Arthur Tourtellot, had served his wartime hitch in the Coast Guard. Between them, with the aid of ex-U.S. Marine sergeant and MOT Scriptwriter Fred Feldkamp, and a big crew of film editors, librarians, researchers and technicians, they managed to put the Eisenhower story on celluloid...
...Eisenhower, unlike many a U.S. author, had not written his story with an eye on the movies. Therefore, without betraying its honest, factual presentation, his book had to be refitted into 26 connected episodes that would make dramatic use of the most valuable war film available. In the process Feldkamp found that he had a full-time research job on his hands. Eisenhower could state a fact or a situation in a sentence, but Feldkamp, in order to pictorialize it, had to know what was going on all over the battlefield-and elsewhere-at the same time. His reading included...