They Were Expendable

John Ford went to war. He joined the OSS, was given the rank of commander, and made documentary films for the navy. The height of his excitement was being present at the Battle of Midway where he made the Academy Award winning Documentary The Battle of Midway, along with several others. With the war winding down, he was allowed to go to Florida and film an adaptation of the book of the same name by William Lindsay White about a real squadron of PT boats, fictionalized a bit for dramatic effe...