Word: burma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merrill's Marauders goes behind the Japanese lines with 3,000 U.S. volunteers in Burma, and documents their ordeal as they fought, died and endured in the smothering heat and quiet of the jungle...
...Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin seems like a flashback to 1944, when Colonel Philip G. Cochran's (the Flip Corkin of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip) 1st Air Commando Force flew P-52s, B-25s and C-47s across the Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined...
Merrill's Marauders goes behind the Japanese lines with 3,000 U.S. volunteers in Burma, and documents their ordeal as they fought, died and endured in the smothering heat and quiet of the jungle...
Merrill's Marauders. In its underkeyed account of jungle fighting and jungle horror, this semi-documentary film signs with honor the ordeal of 3,000 U.S. volunteers fighting behind Japanese lines in Burma...
Merrill's Marauders. In its underkeyed account of jungle fighting and jungle horror, this semi-documentary film signs with honor the ordeal of 3,000 U.S. volunteers fighting behind Japanese lines in Burma...