John Wayne only fight Japanese in WWII?

I can think of many Pacific theater movies that he was in, but not any in which he fought the Germans. Is there a reason for this, or I am just wrong?

 

The Longest Day.....that is the only one I can think of.

For whatever reason John Wayne liked the Navy and Marines

 

Amazing - I remember The Longest Day but forgot he was in it (my excuse is that there were so many other stars in that movie).

As for Reunion in France, it must be a stinker of a movie - I daresay no one has ever heard of it!

I was really wondering if he had some sort of preference (dislike) as to the bad guys he wanted to defeat, but I think you may have nailed it: he (or his agent) simply liked Navy/Marine roles, which meant more Pacific than Europe.

Thanks for the replies.

 

another albeit at sea, As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich (john wayne) is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly

 

The good guy is called "Karl Ehrlich". Thats a little funny.

LEO Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch "ehrlich"

 

Nice catch, Milleniumgorilla, I would have nevr thought hollywood that clever with words!

 

John Wayne and Joan Crawford in Reunion in France

 

As for Duke mainly fighting Tojos bunch partly it was John Ford who insurred that that was the main enemy he fought against. I dont know how anyone can say that nobody has ever heard of Reunion in France? I have and have seen part of it. Duke is a shotdown pilot "on the lam" from the "Hitler-Gang" and he goes into hiding while trying to figure out a way to make it back to friendlire lines. Ive never seen teh movie all the way through and its quite sometime before Duke is even seen in this movie.

And great catch Ray, I was going to mention his role in The Sea Chase ;-)) Its also a good film, not one of hsi best but is still good inspite of what General Urko says. Lyle Bettger is the blonde guy and also a baddie in this film.

There is another movie that Duke was in that had to do with near the wars end in which he was in it as a 2 star General along with Kirk Douglas. I havent seen the film in years so I cant remember jsut what is in it about WWII but-it had nothing to do with the Japanese. The story is more of how the Jewish State got its start.

Also, there are certain references made in other movies he did during the 40s that have to do with the war in Europe. I cant think of the names off-hand.

As for John Ford, he was in charge oif a Navy Film unit and he was at the time, a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy. He used his influence to get things done during the war which had Duke as the major attraction in his films. Ford spent his service time in the Pacific theater so thats partly why Duke made so many films dealing with the Japanese instead of the Germans and Italians.

For a more factual answer to this, you would hav eto please go to the BEST site about Duke on the net which is: JWMB and ask Chester and the Mrs, or Mr William T. Brooks-(who was friends with Duke as welll as acted in a few of Dukes movies like: Rio Grande and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon) and as well was one of Dukes personal Pilots. You will get the truth told to you there.

 

He liked the Flying Tigers too.

 

Technically he was a civilian

 

the longest day is a classic, the first picture of this film that comes to mind is when he has his broken leg on the beach and his men carry him around while he giving orders.

 

I just said that he liked the Flying Tigers too. And technically they were in the Nationalist Chinese Airforce.

 

Skip, just know I toyed around with a reply to this for quite a while and came to the conclusion that you'd rather hear it from me than somone else:

John Wayne was 82nd Airborne in that movie, he never saw the beach.

He was still killing the japaneseses though.

 

Technically John Wayne didn't kill anyone in the Longest Day either, he spent the whole movie being carted around on a wagon due to his broken ankle.

 

Ok, the Duke didn't kill any Nazties during the WW2 movie wars, only Greater East Asian Co-Prosperiters. Good thing Carl is away from his computer this weekend.

He sure did wax a lot of Indians and Mexicans though

 

"Cast a Giant Shadow"

It's the story of US Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, the first general in the modern Israeli army, accidentally killed by his own men when he failed to answer the "Who goes there? challenge, issued in Hebrew.

 

Heh heh, but I did get a quick cxhance to check in toi see how the kids were behaving :lol::lol::lol:

 

Hi AE, thats the one. Ive seen part of it once and about 30 years ago or so.