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Post by Whiterook on Jun 10, 2023 12:29:46 GMT -5
Love me a good war movie! Today’s gem… Glenn Ford is a favorite of mine, as well as Ernie Borgnine!
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Post by McCoy on Jun 10, 2023 15:46:42 GMT -5
Have you read the book by the skipper on USN ArcherFish about his sinking of the IJN Shinano? I can recommend the book as it's a good read!
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Post by Whiterook on Jun 11, 2023 9:44:08 GMT -5
Have you read the book by the skipper on USN ArcherFish about his sinking of the IJN Shinano? I can recommend the book as it's a good read! Oooooh! No, I hadn’t heard of it…this one?
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Post by McCoy on Jun 11, 2023 15:36:35 GMT -5
Yes, that one! A good short read that I can recommend!
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Post by mikeh on Jul 5, 2023 13:38:38 GMT -5
Was in a Lee Marvin sort of mood last night so put in the extended version of The Big Red One.
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Post by Geek44 on Jul 8, 2023 21:36:43 GMT -5
Can highly recommend "Danger Close" which chronicles the Battle of Long Tan which occurred when a couple of hundred Australian troops accidentally exposed NVA and Viet Cong troops massing to attack their base in Phuoc Tuy Province in Vietnam in 1966. Heavily outnumbered Australian kids backed by New Zealand artillery fire held off several thousand enemy soldiers until relieved by M113 armoured vehicles. An Aussie made film so probably a bit biased, the film stars nobody you'd know which adds to its appeal for me.
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Post by McCoy on Jul 9, 2023 3:55:08 GMT -5
Can highly recommend "Danger Close" which chronicles the Battle of Long Tan which occurred when a couple of hundred Australian troops accidentally exposed NVA and Viet Cong troops massing to attack their base in Phuoc Tuy Province in Vietnam in 1966. Heavily outnumbered Australian kids backed by New Zealand artillery fire held off several thousand enemy soldiers until relieved by M113 armoured vehicles. An Aussie made film so probably a bit biased, the film stars nobody you'd know which adds to its appeal for me. Now that's an excellent movie well recommended by me as well! I was glad when I first heard that they was making it and then the long wait for it. But boy, I wasn't let down by it so the long wait for it turned out to be worth it...
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Post by Whiterook on Jul 10, 2023 10:02:42 GMT -5
I had the privilege to watch “None But the Brave” a couple weeks back! That flick hasn’t been show on TV in decades, and I remember watching it on the Sunday daytime movies back as a teen. I think it was on TCM I saw it recently… up ‘til then, you had to rent or buy it. It was always a favorite of mine.
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