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To: FFranco
".......John Wayne....Shores of Iowa Jima..."

He sure knew how to make you want to run up that hill behind him.

I think one of my cousins got the Duke's autograph on his bib overalls during the shooting of the movie near Dubuque.

30 posted on 09/20/2007 1:49:56 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: diogenes ghost

Of course it should have been ‘The Sands of Iwo Jima.’ I spell checked it and didn’t note the ‘correction’ was incorrect. Plus, that film isn’t a good example because it was made after WWII.

Maybe a better example would have been ‘Wake Island,’ released in 1942, showing the heroic deaths of the Marines defending Wake, though it didn’t star John Wayne.


35 posted on 09/20/2007 2:09:37 PM PDT by FFranco
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To: diogenes ghost
"Dubuque"

You mean they actually shot part of that film near Dubuque? First time I ever heard of that. And it's "Sands of Iwo Jima" not Shores.

46 posted on 09/21/2007 1:37:15 AM PDT by driftless2
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