THIS IS THE ARMY - 1943 clip 5 (Army, The End)

[irish89055]

love the movie and the Gipper....a little troubling to see US Army troops marching in the style of the Soviets with bayonets pointing forward..but of course meant to represent the forward progress against the axis.. Thanks to the Canucks, Brits and Aussies with the USA again in Afganistan so as to be no next time..

[GMYellowstone]

7 people are un-American jerks!

[GMYellowstone]

This is SUCH an amazing movie! I cry everytime! God PLEASE Bless our troops!!!

[CalvinSilverbow]

This is the last time!!!! Rising Eagles forever!

[donmoseslerman]

my uncle Morris was in this film in he chorus and was sent over seas in the next week and was captured in North Africa, this is a powerful musical price!

[RizeOrDie]

the german fought well, twice against the world

[mcwiggles101]

this film is a joke

[SONOFHERO52]

@mcwiggles101 no wiggleass...that was what your daddy said the first time he saw you in the delivery room

[nancyfloressantos]

This is such a beautiful treasure! Thanks so much.

[healthyfire]

my grandfather was with the Winnipeg Grenadiers, we keep his medals displayed on the wall.

[fireball897]

Never have to do it again? Well, that is sort of a lie...

[RM4FS]

In this picture is two presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt potrayed as watching the show; Ronald Regan as a G.I.

[fireball897]

Happy 4th of July! 

[Miakahitoshi666]

My Favorite Film of all time!

[NCTaikoDrumboy]

Both my uncles served in the Navy during the Big Deuce. My dad's brother-in-law, Uncle Gene, served aboard the battleship USS COLORADO, a dreadnought of late WWI vintage like the Pearl Harbor 8. COLORADO was also stationed at Pearl, but was in San Francisco being overhauled when the attack came. My mom's brother-in-law, Uncle Donald, served with the Navy Medical Corps. The war was already in its last year when he got shipped out, and he saw action at Okinawa.

[donmoseslerman]

my uncle Morris was in this chorus in this movie and was sent over to North Africa and captured and put in a German staling pow camp weeks after this movie was made , war is not glamorous its ugly but movies like this one made us fell proud to be an American.

[donmoseslerman]

my uncle was in this chorus in this movie and was sent over to libya in North Africa and captured and put in a German stalig pow camp

[donmoseslerman]

this number had all the trimmings of Busby Berkeley musical, outstanding , movies like this made you fell proud to be an American, I must have watched this you tube 100 times this week and I'm going to continue to watch it 10 0more!

[towringer]

That wonderful baritone Sergeant--is his the top enlisted rank in the Army?

[McCloed111]

Actually the Germans called the Highland Regiments "Devils in skirts" during the first world war and the "Ladies from hell" in the second. The Bagpipers just scared the living hell out of the Germans. The Great Highland Bagpipes are the only musical instrument that has ever been considered a weapon of warfare because of the fear that their notes put into the enemy ranks.

[DonMeaker]

The bearskins worn by the british guards units commemerate their capture from the french guard at waterloo. Grenadier hats were typically taller, since grenades were heavy, only the larger men could throw them well. Making the men look bigger had a practical effect, exaggerating the distance that you thought that a grenade could be thrown.

[DonMeaker]

On further consideration, the leather strip was some political officer's idea of a good idea to make the soldiers hold their heads erect. After all it is more important for soldiers to scare the enemy by their carriage and bearing than to be able to move with celerity and vitesse.

[DonMeaker]

One may try, if you wish, to see if a leather flap protects from a saber slash. Now if it was chain mail, you would have a chance, but leather?

[DonMeaker]

Yes, that one is true. Did you know that before 1921 the Marines celebrated their birthday on July 11th 1834 (when they got their own regulations) and changed it to Nov 10th 1775 after WWI?

[DonMeaker]

Actually, no. Devil dog was invented by a US newspaper correspondent, and he attributed it to the germans, but got the grammer wrong. The Marines are full of such incorrect history.

[DonMeaker]

The Canadians did a great job at Dieppe, and the US and Britain learned a lot from their sacrifice. In the First world war the germans thought that three kinds of soldiers met their "storm trooper" standard. The Australians, the Canadians and the Marines. Of course the Marines has an Army Machinegun battalion along for the ride.

[686204]

Sieg Heil, now go play with your other little racist friends in the KKK!

[686204]

Like I said before you would have made a great Nazi and they started WW11 and lost it! You can rant and rave all you want on this site but you are nothing but a bigot and a racist.

[686204]

If my version of history is wrong in this case prove it. Your knowledge of our Country's Parliamentary system is totally laughable. We have a Governor General who is a representative of the Queen. Both are figure heads only with no power of authority when it comes to the Day to day operations of our Country. We are completely independent of Britain and have been since 1867. And your lack of knowledge of our history in both war and peace is just as bad.

[686204]

Since time began wars have always been started for an official reason. However, there has also been a hidden real reason as well. The hidden reason In the case of the crusades was to liberate those christian states conquered by the Turks who originally did not reconize Papal authority. The Pope would then step in a force it on them. In carrying out this objective the Crusaders plundered, pillaged and murdered Christian, moslem and Jew alike. It was called the spoils of war you dummy!

[686204]

A modern anology would be your country going to war with Iraq to liberate them from a tyrant when all the wold knows it was for oil. Now i see you have a hate on for gays, is there anything you don't hate besides yourself. It is people like you that start wars just like those radicals of the Muslim faith. I certainly am glad that the majority of Americans are not like you, idiot.

[686204]

Some Detective, you got the wrong country buddy boy. I am a little closer than you think! Now have you ever heard of the Crusades and what Christians did to Muslims, Jews and a few other religions all in the Name of a Christian god. Ops the way you look at things in this world you sure wouldn't know god existed. Christians, Muslims I don't think you know or care to know what either represents. Your only interest is hate and vulgar language.

[686204]

By the way i believe there are hate laws in your country and they would certainly apply to the content of your little rant on this site. If you were a Detective you would be aware of this. Detective, probably a floor walker in Walmart! lol

[686204]

You a detective i find that hard to believe. You can't even pick up on all the clues i left indicating that i am not a Yank! Anyway you certainly convinced me that you would have made a great Nazis and keep waving that Confederate flag. Like you they were both losers that went no where. Like most people on this earth i can only take so much of a bigot and a racist they become repetitively boring, so so long.

[686204]

If you weren't so pathetic i would bust out laughing. I take it you did not vote for your new President eh! lol Too bad you don't have half his brains! And speaking of war service why aren't you in uniform and over in Iraq? Oh yeah there is no longer a draft system in the U.S. knew there had to be a reason. Not that it really matters but i am white although I have the brains to judge a man by his intelligence and not the colour of his skin!

[686204]

Well I sure had you pegged right KKK right to the core! What does impress me though is the big words you throw around it would almost make me think you are intelligent. My dad fought the Nazis too and he was decorated for bravery twice however I am some glad he did not have the same degraded values as you and your family! To bring this conversation down to your level if I am an asshole you are what comes out of it! Crawl back into your hole you moron.

[686204]

spoken like a true member of the KKK PattonsBoot! Your country is in trouble based on pure Corporate greed and of course a President who was prepared to fight a 6 week war that is now entering it's 8th Year. What the H does White and Christian have to do with it.

[wwrigle2]

There will always be wars because of the many differences between the people of thi planet and greed for more land and/or wanting to enslave those differences!!!

[walterbrunswick]

Makes me wish America was still like this.

Going Marines. God Bless!

[KillerChihuahua]

You have no idea what I think is good or not.

According to the US Census Buraue, the highest percentage of Caucasians in the 1940s was 89.8. That is closer to 90%, not 95%. No religious demographics are available from that period so far as I have been able to determine. None of that is the point, however. You said "Maybe the Germans should have won" which is beyond idiotic. You, sir, are a moron.

[KillerChihuahua]

PattonsBoot , are you making a point, or are you really that ignorant? You cannot possibly believe what you posted. I refuse to believe anyone intelligent enough to use a computer could possibly be that ignorant of historical demographics.

[TaikoDrummerNC]

A song like this one would help military morale go a LOOOOONG way in the here and now, given the nature of the enemies we face. And just like the song says, we should clean it up for all time this time 'round!!

[NamVetBuck]

If you are working on your Swedish citizenship...stay there. We FIGHT for our beliefs...the Swedes are "neutral"..and that means they benefit from those of us who fight to keep all men free...

[fothgt]

America was not like this in 1940, so he left. Good. Go to Sweden were there is but a few if any minorities. Anybody who read that comment knows the real deal. America is still a great nation and those who leave really dont want to fight for it. They left that to others back in the 40's.

[netzero26]

Brings a tear to my eye, and I'm just an 18 year old Canadian!

Much respect to the veterans of both wars.

[wildcimmerian]

America today isn't the same as it was in 1940. I'm a veteran of OEF, and OIF, but now I'm a proud visa carrier in Sweden, working on my citizenship. Not much to be proud of in modern America, and I'm glad that I left. 

I do love this clip though.

[SimonAridan]

I hear you, sir, but I think the only way to fix thinjgs is for the good people to stay. I think there's still enough worth fighting for.

Army Hooah!

[jdsmyhero8521]

So amazing! And Beautiful!!! It's ashame the soldiers don't do fund raising shows anymore! It's such a good idea! They probably don't because citizens aren't as patriotic anymore...horrible!! Now they burn Amercian flags...What the heck is that!?!? God Bless America!!

[tonyschmoeredux]

M A G N I F I C E N T

[dday0606]

I am 49 years old and posted this clip. It gives me chills each time I view it. These young kids had a goal - help free the world. Their devotion to a good cause crossed religion, race, and national origin. None of those topics were perfect back in the 1940s, but these young folks knew they had a higher calling - to help the world. What they did THEN, we should remember TODAY!

[tonyschmoeredux]

I absolutely agree. George Murphy also went on to become a governor.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@dday0606 Pardon me, but that is American crap. My father and uncles fought in WW2. They went overseas for three reasons adventure, because everyone else was doing the same thing, and most of all, they didn't want the women to brand them as cowards. I just don't believe this crap from the US that they went to fight for freedom and "good causes". My dad said the Italians and Germans he fought were good guys.

[dday0606]

@SugarTomAppleRoger You are certainly entitled to your opinion, and even the use of expletives to articulate that opinion. My comments are made after many conversations with men who fought in WWII, including men of my own family. From American WWII veterans I have known, I know that in the 1930s/40s, America was a isolationist country after giving so many of her sons in WWI. ...

[dday0606]

... The mood was to keep out of foreign affairs after grievous losses in Europe with nothing received in exchange for those losses. As the Axis grew in the 1940s world, the last thing a farm boy in Idaho wanted to do was fight for a mud hut in Manchuria. Pearl Harbor changed the USA. It brought to crystal clarity, the evil and insidious nature of the foe at hand. So you may "crap" on what your accounts of WWII have told you, but don't crap on a world that stood in line to stop the Axis.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@dday0606 OK. The "crap" word is extreme. However, I do get somewhat resentful of the American patriotic attitude. My father was badly wounded in a battle. The last thing he can remember was being overrun by a unit of 68 panzers. He was the only one left alive in his batallion and was operated on the 7th December 1941. My uncle was killed in Libya on my father's next birthday in 1942. These guys also fought against the Germans, but were never unrealistic about it.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@dday0606 Also, with New Zealand, it wasn't just a few. It was nearly all the men who went in. Why? It was because the ladies handed out white feathers to those who remained. My father even got the feathers after he came back wounded with a large piece of shrapnel in his head. He also lost one eye. In the US, you are just lucky that the American ladies aren't so hard.

[dday0606]

Please understand that Americans love liberty and freedom! I know a young man who serves in the US Army in Iraq. He is humble and sees his greater purpose in aiding school children in Iraq. Please don't hate the USA because of stupid USA administrations or media comments. Try to see past that to the people. What makes a person pick up a weapon to do potential harm to another human being? Conquest or liberation?

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@dday0606 Yes. I can understand. We are bought up differently in New Zealand. I do think that American culture does try to hide reality from people. You see it in American films. I don't think anyone hates the United States, certainly not in New Zealand. The US government should show us more examples of the help people are getting from US soldiers, not just going on about victories etc. It is difficult to know what the correct approach is sometimes. No one gets it all correct.

[Leigori]

@SugarTomAppleRoger Besides, you have to understand this was for all intensive purposes a propoganda film for morale. They had to instill the feeling into your average Joe American that winning was a sure thing, and that it couldn't be done without America being there. Like you, plus a generation, my great uncle was killed in the Phillipines in a POW camp. And my Grandfather served in the Navy as soon as he was able 1944-45. So nothing but respect.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@Leigori You guys were lucky. We in New Zealand suffered mess after mess in WW2. My father and uncles were in all these battles. First of all there was Greece. We were thrown in there by Churchill and were thrashed. Then there was Crete. Another horrible defeat by low grade German parachustists of all things - pathetic. The there were the battles in Libya. We lost there too. Then on Italy, where we lost at Monte Cassino. We finally won one at Venice, which we liberated.

[FLJBeliever1776]

@dday0606 Then that soldier did his job. End the war, protect the innocent, and help when they need help. We don't plan on staying and I surely don't want to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we need to win it and end it or its going to come back to America.

From the recent moves of the enemy, it can be concluded that they're on the ropes and desperately trying to look stronger. They've lost the edge, they are not as feared as they had been. Now they are the ones who fear.

[Shadowcry1000]

@dday0606 If the the real purpose was to aid the school children, you would have ousted Saddam in 1991.

[dday0606]

@Shadowcry1000 Your comment does not make sense. What "real purpose", and what do school children have to do with it? This war (WW II) was in response to the Axis desire to conquer and dominate the world. I never understand people who make linkages to the WWII fight, and current events - as if the motivations are the same.

[gab21113]

@Shadowcry1000 The UN mandate was to free Kuwait only.

[Shadowcry1000]

@gab21113 This convo is so old, based off something else. Its irrelevant now

[FLJBeliever1776]

@SugarTomAppleRoger Not all of them were good.

Ever heard of the SS and Waffen-SS?

Ever wondered how the average Japanese Army officer completed his training?

Trust me when I say they went over there, because someone, no matter the reason had to go over and end it.

And that time, they did win it fully and it did end, but we must also ask, is the job over yet?

Saddam Huessin kept a copy of Mein Kampf.

Islamic Radicals were taught by the SS and backed by Hitler.

Did it end, truly end?

It hasn't.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@FLJBeliever1776 Things were different then. We are judging those days with the viewpoint now. My father remembered fighting these "dreadful nazis". The all came down in parachutes he remembers. That was at a time when American was at peace. He said it was dreadful. All those German guys died. They had no chance. He said there is no bravery being on the ground facing paratroops. He felt so sorry for the men they had to kill. He said they were "beautiful men" and that war was so unnecessary.

[FLJBeliever1776]

@SugarTomAppleRoger I'm not denying the German Wehrmacht is due, but the facts were the facts, they were on the wrong side with one of the top most evil dictators in the world. None of them should have been in the war, no one should have been fighting, but the facts are they were fighting and the enemy was dying. Our tactics and equipment were superior, even when they didn't appear to be so, but we learned and like that song said, we did win it and we ended it, only it seems not totally now.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@FLJBeliever1776 I do agree with much of what you say. :) It is true that the US did go over and stop this war bullshit. We are the lucky generation, the one who has seen continual peace since 1945. From my point of view, it doesn't matter much what power in control, as long as there are no wars going on and people aren't being persecuted like the Jews were.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@FLJBeliever1776 My father also mentioned the US troops in NZ. He knew a lot of them. He was disgusted at the training methods. He thought it was so bad that so many of them were beng killed in training before they even got near the Japanese. He also said that the Americans were over there for the same reasons that they had gone, mainly for adventure. There was also pressure, as everyone else was going. He said no one was going over because they hated the Japanese. They didn't even know them.

[FLJBeliever1776]

@SugarTomAppleRoger I don't disagree most thought of it as an adventure and the early days were pretty bad, but by 1944 things were getting right. The US went from pretty much idle to full speed and in quite the hurry.

Though for the young kids, they were excited, most had never ventured very far from their hometowns, let alone their home state, with that greater majority had never even heard of some of the places they were going they never heard of before so it was an adventure for them.