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They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne, and featuring Donna Reed.The film is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by William Lindsay White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a United States PT boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese invasion during the Battle of ...
In early 2013, after extensive U.S. touring Iration announced they had finished recording a new full length album titled Automatic The album was released in July 2013, sold more than 8,000 copies in its first week of release, and topped the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart. [4]
The Expendables were a 1980s band based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Fronted by singer-songwriter/guitarist Jay Clarkson , the band grew out of her former bands, They Were Expendable and The Playthings , and released a single and album in 1984 on the Flying Nun label.
Bulkeley's PT-boat heroics in defending the Philippines from Japanese invasion in 1941-1942 was the subject of the novel "They Were Expendable" by William Lindsay White in 1942, which was turned into the big screen epic They Were Expendable three years later by director John Ford, starring John Wayne, with Robert Montgomery playing a somewhat ...
Starting on September 26, 2021, The Expendables co-headlined a Fall tour with Ballyhoo!, presenting what they call "The ExpendaHoo! 2021 Tour", which included opening band, Tunnel Vision. They collaborated with Ballyhoo! on their 2011 single "Walk Away", creating a remixed version with both Howie Spangler and Geoff Weers on vocals.
As the film notes, there were about a half-million people — mostly Hispanics and Native Americans — living within a 150-mile (241.4-kilometer) radius of the blast.
They Were Expendable was a Book of the Month Club selection, as well. [1] He served for a time as an overseer of Harvard. [2] He was elected to the board of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1950. [6] He became an officer of a group formed to aid Russian refugees in 1951, the American Committee for Freedom for the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. [7]
These three boats were based at Mindanao until mid-April 1942, where two of them (PT-41 and PT-34) attacked the Kuma, scoring at least one hit. This was to be the squadron's last action: PT-34 was destroyed by Japanese aircraft, PT-35 had to be scuttled to avoid capture, and PT-41 was commandeered by the U.S. Army to defend Lake Lanao .