Posted on 09/10/2015 10:36:29 AM PDT by rktman
4 amazing military stories that should totally be movies
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Hollywood has a reputation for embellishing “true stories” with an extra dose of drama, special effects, and too-beautiful-to-be-real actors. “Brian Chontosh: The Movie,” however, would require no exaggeration — this story of military valor is unbelievably badass from start to finish.
Then-Lt. Brian Chontosh was a Marine platoon leader during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. On the morning of March 25, he was sitting shotgun in a Humvee when a large berm appeared in the distance. Before he and his men knew what was happening, Iraqi soldiers began showering the vehicle detail with machine gun fire, grenades and mortars from behind the shelter — instantly killing a medic and damaging a tank.
Kinda Audie Murphy meets Mad Max. :>}
I remain puzzled why they have never made a film of John Ripley and the bridge at Dong Ha during the 1972 Easter Offensive.
A good read. I always thought Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on Ploesti Romania, would have made an epic war movie. 177 B-24 Liberators over the target almost simultaneously. The Germans thought it was a brilliant, coordinated move, but it was caused by at least one group missing their Initial Point, and making a correction. The most heavily defended target in Europe at the time. Many examples of individual valor throughout the action. If I remember correctly it was one of the most heavily decorated battles of WWII. At least two Medal of Honors, I believe, for starters.
The book, “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors,” is a military story that absolutely needs to be made a movie. A handful of destroyers going up against the mightiest battleships, and fleet of the Japanese off Samar in the Philippines, WW2, and WINNING. A military David and Goliath story of ever there was one.
The heroism of those aboard those little tin cans was incredible. Three of the destroyers sunk, the surviving crew having to spend days in shark infested waters before they were rescued.
Later
I am still a tin can sailor. LOL! Actually, my first ship was smaller than the tin can destroyers. Destroyer Escort then 3 late WW2 destroyers starting in ‘67. Big seas and little ships can be spooky to say the least. Saw the pucker factor turned up to 10 a few times.
Sorry, The Last Battle has to be one of the most intriguing and ironic actions on any battlefield:
The most extraordinary things about Stephen Harding’s The Last Battle, a truly incredible tale of World War II, are that it hasn’t been told before in English, and that it hasn’t already been made into a blockbuster Hollywood movie. Here are the basic facts: on 5 May 1945—five days after Hitler’s suicide—three Sherman tanks from the 23rd Tank Battalion of the U.S. 12th Armored Division under the command of Capt. John C. ‘Jack’ Lee Jr., liberated an Austrian castle called Schloss Itter in the Tyrol, a special prison that housed various French VIPs, including the ex-prime ministers Paul Reynaud and Eduard Daladier and former commanders-in-chief Generals Maxime Weygand and Paul Gamelin, amongst several others. Yet when the units of the veteran 17th Waffen-SS Panzer Grenadier Division arrived to recapture the castle and execute the prisoners, Lee’s beleaguered and outnumbered men were joined by anti-Nazi German soldiers of the Wehrmacht...
C’mon!
Wow!
I believe that Mel Gibson is working on a movie about PFC Desmond Doss, which in my opinion should have been made years ago.
http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/2717/doss-desmond-t.php
Yes, for those interested, “The Easter Offensive” by Turley is a great read on Dong Ha and the larger offensive.
36 years ago a young David Smith wrote a script for Moe Berg.
He was a pro-baseball player who spied for America during WWII.
His agent wasn’t very well connected and it never came to pass....but it should have.
Agree. DDs taking on BBs? Nuts.
I’d pay to see that movie.
Could it be that this story would have to cast the U.S and South Vietnamese troops in a positive light? Remember almost all Hollywood producers were either draft dodgers, if they were old enough, or were fed the left wing negative propaganda taught in the public school system since 1973. Also, there are still politicians like Kerry and Clinton who desperately want to play down anything positive about the time they were actively trying to sell out the South Vietnamese to their commie friends in Hanoi.
I’d be happy with a movie about 911 that was positive and showed the real heroics and also showed the Muzzie plot up close.
There is a old PBS documentary on the Polesti Raid called Wing and Prayer: The Saga of the Utah Man. It is a phenomenal story. You can watch it free on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2hWCkcYCdk&ab_channel=TimBosch
I agree whole-heartedly. When I first read about this battle in the Samar Straits and Taffy 3 I thought it would make a great movie. Perhaps one day.
Exellent. Thanks!!
Never had heard of the Easter Offensive at Dong Ha before.
I used to take our company flat tires to a little
shop in Dong Ha to get fixed.Really neat the way he
did the work without mechanical tools.This was `70 & `71.
There is gonna be a movie coming out in next May about
the USS Indianapolis.Looking forward to that
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