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.
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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
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.
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.
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