They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of
unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces
and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the
Vietnam War: The Green Berets.
John Wayne stars in and co-directs this depiction of
America's Vietnam effort, based on Robin Moore's novel.
Wayne wrote to President Lyndon Johnson to request
military assistance for the film and got more than
enough firepower to create an impressive spectacle. Its
soldiers fit the tried-and-
true mold of earlier
Wayne war classics like
Back to Bataan and
Sands of Iwo Jima. Their
heroics are timeless.
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of
unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces
and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the
Vietnam War: The Green Berets.
John Wayne stars in and co-directs this depiction of
America's Vietnam effort, based on Robin Moore's novel.
Wayne wrote to President Lyndon Johnson to request
military assistance for the film and got more than
enough firepower to create an impressive spectacle. Its
soldiers fit the tried-and-
true mold of earlier
Wayne war classics like
Back to Bataan and
Sands of Iwo Jima. Their
heroics are timeless.
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