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5th Special Forces Group (United States) - Wikipedia  The 5th Special Forces Group (5th SFG(A)) is one of the most decorated active duty United ... The 5th Special Forces Group was among those units activated in 1961, and while attending training at the Special ..... The 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) was featured in the movie The Green Berets, starring John Wayne.
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The Green Berets1965-1968 | The Pop History Dig  May 19, 2011 ... Green Beret Barry Sadler shown on the record sleeve for his 1966 No. ... adoption and wearing of the green beret by Special Forces units. .... The song is also heard, as a choral version, in the 1968 John Wayne film The Green Berets, ..... William Rice, Wayne Leads Green Beret Into Vietnam, Washington...
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History of Guerrilla Warfare -- Part 4: The Green Berets - Agile Writer  Special Forces units had worn a green beret since it was designed by Major Herb Brucker in 1953. He got the ... And in 1968, John Wayne produced, directed, and starred in a movie called The Green Berets. ... Special Forces Take the Lead.
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The Green Berets (film) - Wikipedia  The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film set in Vietnam, featuring John Wayne, Jim ... When asked by Green Beret Colonel Mike Kirby (John Wayne) if he had ever been to ... While selecting his teams, Kirby intercepts a Spc. Petersen (Jim Hutton) from another unit who is scrounging supplies from Kirby's supply depot.
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Role Reversal: U.S. Special Operations Forces After the Long War  Mar 3, 2015 ... A U.S. special operations forces soldier leads Iraqi special operations ... Commanders of conventional units often complained that SOF operating in the ... heard of them was in the 1968 John Wayne movie Green Berets.
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Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) - Trivia - IMDb  Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) Trivia on IMDb: Cameos, Mistakes, Spoilers and more. ... John Wayne turned the film down at first, since at 42 he was rather old for the part ... Ira H. Hayes and John H. Bradley are seen with John Wayne as he instructs ... to recreate the incident is the actual flag that was raised on Mount Suribachi.
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Erwin Rommel - Wikiquote  Gentlemen, you have fought like lions and been led by donkeys. .... There exists a real danger that our friend Rommel is becoming a kind of magical ... directive to his officers, quoted in Rommel, The Desert Fox (1951) by Desmond Young, p. .... What links here  Related changes  Upload file  Special pages  Permanent link...
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Amazon.com: John Wayne-John Ford Film Collection (The ...  Editorial Reviews. Product Description. John Ford was easily one of the greatest, most prolific ... As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, The Searchers must contend with revisionism in its ... Fort Apache stars Wayne as a Cavalry officer used to doing things a certain way out ..... Bought this for husband/father and he loves it.
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One of all-time favorite movies... Bullitt with Steve ... - Pinterest  Bullitt (1968) Cars: 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390 CID Fastback / 1968 Dodge Charger ... characters running, often towards the camera, away from a pursuing party. .... The car that us 60's movie-goers will always remember as Steve McQueen's .... 1969 Dodge Charger "General Lee" The Dukes of Hazzard - Pinning before all...
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John Wayne's 10 Best Westerns - True West Magazine  Apr 1, 2003 ... John Wayne's 10 Best Westerns Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from. -Ringo ... but she didn't know a damned thing about making movies! ... Company of Heroes, the set of The Searchers was unlike any other. ... True Grit (1969)John Wayne finally won his acting Oscar playing an...
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Magnum Force - Wikipedia  Magnum Force is a 1973 American action thriller and the second to feature Clint Eastwood as ... They present Callahan with a veiled ultimatum to join their organization: "Either you're for us or you're against us. ... The first scene cut takes place before the combat pistol championship and after Davis and Harry watch McCoy's...
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Oliver!: 1968 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 21, 2014 ... REED-ING $800: Sir Carol Reed directed this 1968 movie musical based ... John Wayne commanded a regiment of this title force in a 1968 film
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Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) - Wikipedia  Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film starring John Wayne that follows a group of United States Marines from ... Tough-as-nails career Marine Sergeant John Stryker (John Wayne) is greatly disliked by the men of his .... He asks his great-uncle, a World War II veteran, if The Sands of Iwo Jima represents the war properly; the...
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Who was Sgt John M. Stryker, USMC? - WW2 Gyrene  Among all these Hollywood Marines, for many the single most memorable ... time was Sgt John M. Stryker, as depicted in the RKO Pictures film Sands of Iwo Jima (SoIJ). Played by John Wayne, one of America's most beloved actors, Sgt Styker ... in 1949  SoIJ showed film audiences one of the first realistic post-World War II...
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John Wayne, World War II and the Draft - Breitbart  Feb 28, 2010 ... Wayne is the only deceased actor on the list and the only one to ... on film has helped the Duke maintain such a revered place in so ... By the start of World War II Wayne had been suffering for years from ... Had Wayne actually undergone a pre-induction physical, he might indeed have been classified 4-F.
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Why Magnum PI is the Noblest Vietnam Veteran | Veterans Today  Apr 30, 2007 ... We knew it was a bad warand it had something to do with bell-bottoms and Agent Orange. ... Thomas Sullivan Magnum was the first Vietnam veteran to be featured in a ... enlisted in Vietnam, serving as a liaison for Navy intelligence. ... originally envisioned the title character as an invincible James Bond...
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In San Antonio, remembering (and rethinking) the Alamo - LA Times  Nov 8, 2014 ... The Alamo has captured imaginations since 1836. ... and John Wayne, who directed and starred in a movie version of the Alamo ... First stop was the remnants of the old Alamo compound, much of .... If history had happened a bit differently, I thought, any one of these ruins might be a shrine to Texas liberty.
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December 27, 1969 - RUSSIA ASKED TO TAKE PEROT GIFTS FOR ...  27 [Saturday] UP) - After a re- from North Viet Nam, Texas industrialist H. Ross Perot ... to fly two planeloads of gifts for Amneri- can prisoners of war to Mos- cow. ... then the medi- cal supplies and gift packages, would be forwarded from Mos- ... today in an at- tempt to deliver Christmas parcels to American prisoners held by...
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Westmoreland becomes Commander of MACV - Jun 20, 1964 ...  Paul Harkins as head of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV). ... On July 1, 1968, General Creighton Abrams replaced Westmoreland as MACV...
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We Were Soldiers - Wikiquote  We Were Soldiers is a 2002 film about the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam in November, 1965  the first clash between a force of US troops and the People's Army of ... Lt. Col. Hal Moore[edit]. [addressing his troops on the parade ground.] ... Now, I hope you men like training, 'cause me and the Sergeant Major... we love it!
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In the Company of Heroes by Mark Shields | Creators Syndicate  Aug 6, 2016 ... Captured by North Vietnamese soldiers, he was beaten up before ... his bravery and leadership, while enduring 5 1/2 years of relentless ... During his own 6 1/2 years in that same Hanoi hellhole, Marine pilot ... As John McCain struggles to win re-election in Arizona to his sixth Senate term, fate has cruelly...