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...First Yank is Major Steve Ross (Tom Neal), an Army pilot who was raised in Japan and speaks the language without a trace of an accent. He is therefore drafted by Washington to rescue an American scientist (Marc Cramer) from a Jap prison camp. The captive scientist appears to be the only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover...
From this point on, it is high-octane cops & robbers, ending with a slam-bang fist fight and a breakneck chase as the Major, Abby and the scientist dash for the water's edge and a waiting British submarine. In a simple-minded way, it is good, fast...
...Department did not accompany its release of the pictures by any written explanation, but I have been authorized by Major General Leslie R. Groves to give you the above information. These pictures were taken under my direction as the scientist in charge of obtaining the photographic records. JULIAN ELLIS MACK Santa...
...ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman tanks used to examine the area immediately after the explosion-airtight and lead-lined to protect the crews from radiation-hung with mysterious instruments which the Army's cautious scientists still refuse to explain...
...Many a scientist promptly divided Europeans into: 1) the "superior" dolicho cephalic northern and Mediterranean races, and 2) the "inferior" brachycephalic or mesocephalic Central European (Alpine and Dinaric) races, supposedly the product of mixture with invading brachycephalic hordes from Asia...