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The 317th Platoon (French: La 317ème section) is a 1965 French black-and-white war film set during the First Indochina War (1946–54) written and directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer. The film was based on Schoendoerffer's 1963 novel of the same name.
The 317th Infantry Regiment [1] [2] was a regiment of the United States Army during World War II. It was one of three infantry regiments in the 80th Infantry Division . Today, it is known as the 317th Regiment and is based in Lynchburg, Virginia as a training unit within the United States Army Reserve - currently under the 104th Training Division .
Each infantry regiment in the 80th Division used a unique helmet marking; the 317th used a diamond, the 318th a square, the 319th a circle, and the 320th Infantry Regiment a bowl shape. The headquarters of each regiment divided their shape using three vertical stripes of red, white, and blue; the 1st battalion of each regiment used solid red ...
Another film was The 317th Platoon (La 317ème Section) was released in 1964, it was directed by Indochina War (and siege of Dien Bien Phu) veteran Pierre Schoendoerffer. Schoendoerffer has since become a media specialist about the Indochina War and has focused his production on realistic war movies.
The Anderson Platoon (French: La Section Anderson, released in 1966 in Europe, 1967 in the US) is a documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about the Vietnam War, named after the leader of the platoon - Lieutenant Joseph B. Anderson - with which Schoendeorffer was embedded. Two decades later, a sequel was released as Reminiscence.
1st Platoon, B Company, 127th Signal Battalion; Company B, 82d Signal Battalion (-) 82d Military Police Company (-) 511th Military Police Company, Fort Drum; Aviation Brigade, 7th Infantry Division, Task Force Aviation. 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment Archived 2011-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. 195th Air Traffic Control Platoon; 214th ...
Beevor feels, however, that Continental European film-makers are often "far more scrupulous"; for example, in his view the 2004 German film Downfall accurately depicted the historical events of Hitler's final days in his Berlin bunker, [17] and he considers the 1965 French film The 317th Platoon, set in Vietnam, "the greatest war movie ever made".
In December 1979 the division was deployed to Afghanistan. Mironenko was deputy commander of a platoon in the 317th Guards Airborne Regiment reconnaissance company. The platoon guarded important facilities in Kabul. On 29 February 1980, he participated in an operation to defeat a larger group of Mujahideen in the village of Shigal in Kunar ...