Word: commando
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...Messerschmidts; we see two thousand horse power bombers with three ton bombs tucked away in their bellies; we see a frightening, new version of "Hell's Angels." All this runs throughout the picture. Then, to top it off,--the lemon peel on the cocktail of filmdom--there is a Commando raid on a German airfield. Instead of cowboys, you have grim-faced soldiers dressed in black from head to foot; instead of wild western ponics and twirling six-shooters, you have tanks, motorcycles, hand grenades, sub-machine guns...
...Louis: the most ambitious, most spectacular heroes' junket of World War II. For a solid summer month, 15 men of the United Nations fighting forces had shown themselves to the hero-worshipping public. Men of the R.A.F. who had bombed Augsburg in daylight and devastated Rostock at night. Commando-men who had raided Vagsoy and St.-Nazaire in blackface, U.S. flyers who had sunk subs in the Atlantic, had flown bombers on moonless nights over the South Pacific...
Shades with patriotic names are shown: Russian, Australian and Pacific greens; British rose; Iceland, Gallant, Commando, Salute, Alaska, Independence and Overseas blues; American wine; Valor and Freedom reds; Atlantic sand; Gunpowder, Air, Bomber and Pursuit greys; Hawaiian lime; Canadian violet, Panama aqua, Chinese earth, India copper, Pan-American red and Coral...
...head office in Manhattan. Yank correspondents will follow the combat units, fight when necessary, rate as fighting men, not correspondents, if captured. Says Executive Editor Captain Hartzell Spence, ex-U.P. promotion manager and author of One Foot in Heaven: "Suppose one of our reporters goes along on a Commando raid. If he comes back we've got a great story. If he doesn't come back we've got a casualty...
Said the director of Commando operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was cooking up vastly bigger projects in Washington: "A dull sort of raid...