Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Though it is fleetingly faithful to some ingenious details of guerrilla operations, the picture plays fast & loose with military history. Veterans of the Pacific war may be anachronistically edified, if somewhat surprised, to hear American Guerrilla's naval officers speaking of General Douglas MacArthur with something close to veneration. They also may be heartened to learn that the Leyte landings were as simple as a walk-on. In the film's climax, the rumble of distant naval guns disperses a Japanese patrol that is closing in on the guerrillas. "MacArthur?" asks Micheline. "He said he'd return...
...American Guerrilla in the Philippines (20th Century-Fox) muffs a promising chance to do justice to an authentic saga of World War II. The movie was filmed in the Philippines, so that even a fictional treatment might have preserved a semi-documentary tang. Instead, taken either as fiction or reportage, the picture turns out to be as counterfeit and hackneyed as a comic-book adventure yarn, and not nearly so well paced...
Last June, when the Communists invaded the city, a group of South Koreans forceably carried off Pastor Ye under the impression that he was a Red guerrilla. By the time they realized their mistake, the Communists were in full control of Seoul and Ye could not get back. For over three months he waited anxiously in Pusan...
...winter-stubbled fields at Ft. Benning, Ga., a special school had been established to train tough, company-sized commando groups. As a starter, the Army said it would make up four companies of parachutists, give them intensive training in amphibious assault, infiltration, use of enemy weapons, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. As the five officers and no men of each company complete their training, they will be shipped out to become an integral part of an infantry division: every division will have them. There will be only one thing to set them apart from other troops: they will wear the Ranger...
Balinese had been staunch supporters of Indonesian nationalism, conducted guerrilla war against the Dutch up to the signing of the first U.N.-sponsored Indonesian-Dutch accord in 1948. At that time 800 young Balinese rebels surrendered and the guerrilla war ended on Bali. The Dutch sentenced the guerrillas to criminal terms ranging from ten to 15 years in prison; they were released last year when Indonesia achieved full independence...