Biographies War Movie Collections

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Above & Beyond 1952 Is The Story Of Colonel Paul Tibbets Who Created & Commanded The Air Group That Dropped The Atomic Bomb Over Japan. Colonel Tibbits Was Also The Pilot Of The Enola Gay That Dropped The Bomb.

Captain Eddie 1945 Is About Eddie Rickenbacker World War I Flying Ace.

Cast A Gaint Shadow 1966 Is The Story Of Colonel Mickey Marcus Us Army Who Became The First General Of The Isreali Army.

Escape Of The Birdmen 1971 Is The Account Based On A Proposed British Scheme For Prisoners Of War To Escape From Colditz Castle By A Clandestinely Constructing A Glider.

God Is My Co-Pilot 1945 Is About Colonel Robert Lee Scott Jr’s Service With The Flying Tigers And Us Army Air Forces In China & Burma During World War Ii.

Hell To Eternity 1960 Tells The Story Of Guy Louis Gabaldon A Us Marine Who, At Age 18, Captured Or Persuaded To Surrender Over 1,300 Japanese Soldiers And Civilians During The Battles For Saipan And Tinian Islands During World War II.

I Was An American Spy 1951 Dramatizes The True Story Of Claire Phillips, An American Of Filipino Descent Who Spied On The Japanese During World War II And Was Captured, Tortured, And Sentenced To Death Before Being Rescued.

John Paul Jones 1959 Was The United States’ First Well-Known Naval Commander In The American Revolutionary War. His Actions In British Waters During The Revolution Earned Him An International Reputation Which Persists To This Day. He Is Sometimes Referred To As The “Father Of The American Navy”

Patton 1970 George Smith Patton Jr Was A General Of The Us Army Who Commanded The Us Seventh Army In The Mediterranean Theater Of World War II, And The Us Third Army In France And Germany After The Allied Invasion Of Normandy In June 1944.

Reach For The Sky 1956 Is About Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, Who Was A Royal Air Force Flying Ace During World War II. While Attempting Some Aerobatics, He Crashed And Lost Both His Legs. After Recovering He Re-Took Flight Training And Then Requested Reactivation As A Pilot And Returned To The Raf.

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Sergeant York 1941 Alvin Cullum York He Was One Of The Most Decorated Us Army Soldiers Of World War I.

The Beginning Or The End 1947 Is About The Development Of The Atomic Bomb During World War II.

The Court-Martial Of Billy Mitchell 1955 Tells The Story Of The 1935 Court-Martial Of General Billy Mitchell, Who Is Considered The Founder Of The Us Air Force.

The Great Escape 1963 Is A Firsthand Account Of The Mass Escape By British Prisoners Of War From A German Pow Camp.

The Long Gray Line 1955 Is Based On The Life Of Marty Maher Who Joined The Us Army In 1898 And Rose To The Rank Of Master Sergeant.

The Mc Connell Story 1955 Tells The Story Of Us Air Force Pilot Joseph C Mc Connell Who Served As A Navigator In World War II Before Becoming The Top American Ace During The Korean War And Was Killed While Serving As A Test

The Silent Enemy 1958 Depicts The Italian Frogman And Manned Torpedo Attacks In Gibraltar Harbor During World War II.

The Story Of Dr Wassell 1944 Documents Us Navy Dr Corydon M Wassell During World War II Who Acted As A Liaison Officer For About Forty (40) Wounded American Servicemen From The Uss Marblehead In A Dutch Hospital In Java.

They Died With Their Boots On 1941 Is The Story Of George Armstrong Custer From His Days At West Point To The Little Big Horn.

To Hell & Back 1955 Is The Story Of Audie Murphy The Most Decorated American Combat Soldier Of World War II.