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The battle was for control over the key strategic height Hill 609 and its surrounding area between the American forces of the U.S. II Corps and German units of the Afrika Korps. [1] The battle proved a formative experience for the American forces - in their first clear-cut victory of the campaign, and has been called "the American Army's coming ...
George Shibata (November 14, 1926 – May 20, 1987) was an American military officer, attorney, and film & television actor. He was the first Japanese American graduate of any of the United States Service Academies, graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1951.
Daniel J. Travanti (born Danielo Giovanni Travanti; March 7, 1940) [1] is an American actor. He is best known for playing police captain Frank Furillo in the television drama series Hill Street Blues (1981–1987) [2] for which he received a Golden Globe Award from five nominations, and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards from five nominations.
Following the death of Lord of the Rings actor Bernard Hill on May 5, fellow castmates and longtime friends from the J.R.R. Tolkien movie trilogy bid farewell to their King Théoden in a touching ...
A photo of the second flag-raising, which included Hayes in it, became famous and was widely reproduced. After the battle, Hayes and two other men were identified as surviving second flag-raisers and were reassigned to help raise funds for the Seventh War Loan drive. In 1946, after his service in the Marine Corps, he was instrumental in ...
The cast of 'One Tree Hill' "I moved on. But I had a good time playing him and I was honored to be given such an interesting character," Johansson, 60, said, earning laughs from the crowd.
Pork Chop Hill is a 1959 American Korean War film starring Gregory Peck, Woody Strode, Rip Torn, and George Peppard. The film, which was the final war film directed by Lewis Milestone , is based upon the 1956 book by U.S. military historian Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall .
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