America Supports You: 'The Great Raid' Preview Storms D.C.

American Forces Press Service ^ | July 29, 2005 | Samantha L. Quigley

[SandRat]

pictures at source

[Mrs.Liberty]

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[Bombardier]

Looks like a good movie. One of the few I'll be seeing....

[rlmorel]

I lived in the Phillipines for several years when I was a kid...they remember the Bataan Death March over there, even if many Americans do not.

My Boy Scout troop hiked it each year.

I am really looking forward to this movie, I read the book about it!!!!

[dirtboy]

I don't care if this movie sucked eggs. I would go see it to encourage more of it's type to be made.

But I doubt there is any egg-sucking going on here.

[nonliberal]

A buddy of mine has grandparents who live in Guam. They visited a few years back and his grandmother showed me the scar on her neck where the Japanese tried to sever her head.

[FreedomPoster]

This one looks worth going to see in the theater.

[rlmorel]

Yeah. I read all about it when I was 10 years old, living in Japan, then my dad's next duty station was...the Phillipines.

You know, I like and admire the Japanese. But, my God, for people as capable of appreciation of subtle beauty, humor, intelligence and politeness, they have an unbelievable capacity for cruelty and barbarism.

[Charlespg]

The movie adaptation of two books - "The Great Raid" by William B. Breuer and "Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides -stars actors Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes, Mark Consuelos and James Franco.

Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides
Great book
this is one movie I will Be Seeing

[SLB]

FYI

[vetvetdoug]

My neighbor was a Tennessee Guardsman that was captured at Corregidor and I met many survivors of the Bataan Death March that live around Wichita Falls, Texas. There is a museum in Wichita Falls that is a history of the Texas Guardsmen that were captured at Corregidor. Up until a few years ago they had reunions there quite often.

I lived at Yokota AFB during the 1950's and my father took me to where the Japanese tortured the captured Doolittle Raiders. I met many ex Japanese soldiers when I was a child and they treated me with respect and friendship but later on I was amazed at how brutal the Japanese soldiers were toward POW's from the US and other Allied countries.

[daybreakcoming]

This is one movie I've been waiting for. Thanks for posting this.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I'm not sure who said it(Tom Clancy?), but it's speculated that Japanese society is so regimented and disciplined that once cut loose from the civil and customary restraints, they go nuts. Whether this is true or not is beyond me, but given the absolute fanaticism they displayed in defending islands to the last man, and the Kamikaze's, it wouldn't surprise me.

I used to work at a sporting goods store, and one of our visiting salemen was a Marine who'd fought in the Pacific. Over 50 years after the war ended, he still refused to even talk to Japanese salesmen at sporting good conventions.

[in the Arena]

I plan on seeing the movie...if you want a detailed written account, checkout the book Ghost Soldiers...

[libs_kma]

"I used to work at a sporting goods store, and one of our visiting salemen was a Marine who'd fought in the Pacific. Over 50 years after the war ended, he still refused to even talk to Japanese salesmen at sporting good conventions."

I have seen that too. My Grandfather fought in the South Pacific in WW II and in the mid-eighties I bought a Toyota Celica GT. My Grandfather refused to ever ride in it. He didn't turn it into a crusade by ragging about it all the time, but he insisted on driving if we went anywhere and he always told me why.

[merry10]

There is also a book on the viewpoint of the nurses on the PI...if you are interested tell me and i will find the title.

[bvw]

The greatest rescue in history was by the Captain and his ship, The Catalpa.

[Ciexyz]

The previews shown on TV look hot. And I'm looking forward to seeing Joseph Fiennes in the film. He was excellent in "Enemy at the Gates" several years ago, the film with Jude Law about WW II snipers at Stalingrad.

[Ciexyz]

...he still refused to talk to Japanese salesmen at sporting goods conventions.

My mother, who was a teen during the WW II years, admitted decades after the war that she had trouble relating to Japanese people. She was never rude to them, she just said she felt funny about them and preferred not to associate with them. Said it was because of so many of her classmates and neighbors dying in the war.

[Ciexyz]

What's the title of the book on the nurses? I seem to remember the story from an old WW II-era film starring Claudette Colbert, about nurses in captivity.