I Am Interested In Ww1 and Ww2

Today is the 75th anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima

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[i]Threescore and fifteen years ago,

On Iwo Jima's scoriac stones

Many a young man bled and died

For country, God or emperor.

Now looking at this desolate isle

Today, but little more remains

Than mostly unkempt monuments

And dreadful artifacts of war,

Rusting where they fell, so long ago.[/i]

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therighttothink50 · 56-60, M

I highly recommend John Garfield in Pride Of The Marines, who portrays real time marine hero Al Schmid, another tear jerker. This film has only one battle scene within Guadalcanal, but it's very realistic. Hard to believe but it's a chick flick....Eleanor Parker does a great job in it.

Another two on the homefront war films I recommend are Since You Went Away with Claudette Colbert and The Best Years Of Our Lives with Frederick March.

If you want to see a war film with the accent on the nurses in war, try So Proudly We Hail with Claudette Colbert.

I assume you have seen Saving Private Ryan. Im a film buff with the accent being on 30s40s50s movies.

Also try Dana Andrews in The Purple Heart for an Air Force perspective on WW2 in the Japanese theater,

A WW1 favorite of mine is The Fighting 69th with James Cagney.

Bataan with Robert Taylor is a real good one.

Another Robert Taylor flick, Above And Beyond deals with the atomic bomb build up and the eventual dropping of it. Another fascinating film.