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Bombs & Shells. There was no air opposition. When the bombers finished, the artillery took up the pounding, fired some 85,000 shells from guns ranging up to 240-mm. (9.4-in.) bore. The artillery barrage was heavier than the famous pounding that preceded El Alamein. Said Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, Mediterranean air commander...
...Mm-hmmm. Coming at a time when most Americans are thinking about death in battle, Tender Comrade makes an arduous pretense of facing that tragic fact. But most of the film is a low-gear report about the hard times and good times of War Wives Rogers, Patricia Collinge, Kim Hunter, Ruth Hussey and Mady Christians. They work in an airplane plant, eat and sleep in a house which they run "like a democracy...
...about to take her out when the radio interrupts with the news that her husband's ship has been sunk. Another wife answers Ginger's "Gee, aren't men fools" with "Yeh, but aren't they sweet." (Ginger's eloquent reply: "Mm-hmmm...
...Department authorized the film, but Lieut. Paul Vogel, the chief cameraman, had to do his job with old cameras which he pilfered (for the occasion) from Universal. During the shooting of one snowy sequence these tired machines froze up and he had to use an Eyemo 16 mm...
Kelly volunteered once more, this time to cover the retreat. As the others left, they saw him at a window, methodically loading and firing a bazooka to slow up the foe. When he made his own getaway he slid down a hill, found an abandoned 37-mm. antitank gun, served and fired that at the enemy positions until he had used up the shells on hand. Then he withdrew in good order, eventually rejoined his own outfit. Said Kelly...