Devils Brigade training WW2 and today

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Devils Brigade or how to kill people in war. This is a true story and a test to see if modern soldiers can preform as the WW2 Devils Brigade.

there was a movie made from the book that was co written by one officer of the brigade. i first saw it as a young kid back when kids still played army. when i found out it was based on a real brigade that made it even better. we had our own squad and killed us many a nazi as soldiers, and when i found out about the Marine Corps we switched to killing Jap bastards. 

sadly the movie isn't all that accurate, and it came out not long after the drity dozen, which was a excellent movie, and took all attention away from The Devils Brigade.
the movie is also loaded with a lot of top actors of the day.

  

• William Holden as Lt. Col./Col. Robert T. Frederick
  
  
• Cliff Robertson as Maj. Alan Crown
  
  
• Vince Edwards as Maj. Cliff Bricker
  
  
• Andrew Prine as Pvt. Theodore Ransom
  
  
• Jeremy Slate as Sgt. Patrick O'Neill
  
  
• Claude Akins as Pvt./Cpl. Rockwell W. "Rocky" Rockman
  
  
• Jack Watson as Cpl./Sgt. Peacock
  
  
• Richard Jaeckel as Pvt./Cpl. Omar Greco
  
  
• Bill Fletcher as Pvt. Billy 'Bronc' Guthrie
  
  
• Richard Dawson as Pvt./Cpl. Hugh MacDonald
  
  
• Tom Troupe as Pvt. Al Manella
  
  
• Luke Askew as Pvt. Hubert Hixon
  
  
• Jean-Paul Vignon as Pvt. Henri Laurent
  
  
• Tom Stern as Capt. Cardwell, Garrison CO of Fort William Henry Harrison
  
  
• Harry Carey Jr. as Capt. Rose
  
  
• Michael Rennie as Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, Commander of the U.S. Fifth Army
  
  
• Carroll O'Connor as Maj. Gen. Maxwell Hunter
  
  
• Dana Andrews as Brig. Gen. Walter Naylor
  
  
• Gretchen Wyler as the Lady of Joy
  
  
• Patric Knowles as Adm Lord Mountbatten
  
  
• Wilhelm Von Homburg as Fritz
  
  
• James Craig as Maj. Gen. Knapp
  
  
• Richard Simmons as Gen. Bixby
  
  
• Norman Alden as the M.P. Lieutenant
  link: Cast
  

gonna watch the documentary tomorrow.