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The producers went to great lengths to interview staff members who had worked with Admiral Halsey during World War II, including two interviews with the admiral himself by James Cagney, during the preproduction research for The Gallant Hours. [19] Cagney's dignified portrayal may have softened Halsey's often salty, pugnacious personality.
British "Rupert" at Merville Gun Battery Museum in France British "Rupert" at Merville Bunker D-Day Museum in France Film prop from the 1962 war film The Longest Day at Airborne Museum of Sainte-Mère-Église in France. A paradummy is a military deception device first used in World War II, intended to imitate a drop of paratroop attackers.
Various firearms used by the United States military during World War II, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax County, Virginia. The following is a list of World War II weapons of the United States, which includes firearm, artillery, vehicles, vessels, and other support equipment known to have been used by the United States Armed Forces—namely the United States Army, United ...
Pages in category "World War II films based on actual events" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 324 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
These are films set during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) in World War II, including those based on fact and fiction.
Additionally, during World War II, Operation Quicksilver was an attempt to mislead the Germans as to the location of the D-Day invasion using dummy military equipment. [2] [3] F-16 mockups on a fake taxiway at Spangdahlem Air Base, 1985. A naval example was the British battleship HMS Centurion. Obsolete and disarmed by World War II, she spent ...
The original Mk 2 grenade had a 3 ⁄ 8-inch (9.5 mm) threaded plug in its base, which covered the opening used to place the explosive filling, either 1.85 oz (52 g) of TNT, 2.33 oz (66 g) of Trojan explosive (a mixture of 40% nitrostarch, ammonium nitrate, and sodium nitrate), 1.85 oz (52 g) of a 50/50 amatol/nitrostarch mixture, or 1.85 oz (52 g) of Grenite (a mixture of 95% nitrostarch and ...
Rumors of this device have persisted for decades after WW2 and were used as a plot trope in the fiction novel Lightning by Dean Koontz (1988). First fully described by Polish journalist and author Igor Witkowski in Prawda o Wunderwaffe (2000), it was later popularized by military journalist and author Nick Cook , who associated it with Nazi ...