Worse than War

Watched a couple war movies from a DVD set. I got my four dollars worth. Gung Ho is an American film from 1943 about a team of U.S. commandos who storm a Japanese held island and attack its radio station. The men gleefully embark on their suicide mission and the background score remains lively and melodic through their ensuing slaughter. Japanese soldiers choose clever hiding places, often in shrubberies, up in palm trees, on rooftops behind chimnies, and in camouflaged machine-gun nests which have to be cleared by hand grenades. And sometimes when they die, they're just faking so they can sneak up behind you and shoot you in the back. But the Americans managed to knock down that radio antenna in the end - with some kind of 'Jap' steamroller. Hell in Normandy is a 1968 Italian World War Two movie about U.S. soldiers. It offers a quieter battleground in the pastoral French countryside, with the only intrusion being that bumbling Tom Gratton when he pops up in the wrong spot. I was thrown by some of the translated idioms, such as '... or you'll get in it in the neck!' which I've never heard in my life.
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