It was important too, to keep enthusiasm up on the home front for the war effort, and movies can motivate people to seek tougher duty.
That ability can be more valuable to the war effort than just one more man with a rifle.
Wayne motivated thousands of enlistments. He was practically the Head Recruitment Officer.
Worst
war
movie
ever.
That from someone who was airborne and detached to SF, will watch a Wayne (Morrison) movie whenever the chance comes, thinks the original Stagecoach is the greatest western ever, and whose mother claimed to have met him as high school students in Glendale (despite being ten years his junior...she did know Bob Wian so maybe I misheard).
Worst WWII propaganda film ever shot 20 years after the fact & in another country altogether.
Worst attempt at a Cowboys and Indians movie ever set in Indochina.
On the other hand, with kudos to Wayne, at the time only that film and Patton even attempted to portray us as the good guys during our time in Vietnam.