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littlebuddy
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Richard Todd as Major John Howard at "Pegasus Bridge" in The Longest Day. ( Todd was actually "there" on D-Day with the British Airborne boys)

 

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He was actually asked to play himself in the film but said he didn't do anything out of the ordinary during the landings!!

littlebuddy
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Kenneth Moore as Douglas Bader in "Reach for the sky".

 

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Believe it or not this is one of my favourite films ever , behind the Wizard of Oz !!

littlebuddy
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I don't know if I have missed it ?? but who played Morgan in Memphis Belle ??

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I don't know if I have missed it ?? but who played Morgan in Memphis Belle ??

 

Nobody. It wasn't a character thing...it was a generic crew.

world war I nerd
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Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon in "Nixon" (commander in Chief)

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world war I nerd
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Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams in "Amistad"

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It's interesting how close some of these are.... and how others are just way off...

world war I nerd
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Fred MacMurry as Eddie Rickenbacker in "Captain Eddie"

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It's been mentioned to me that there are no "military women" from the movies featured here. Good point. I can't bring one to mind but if anyone out there can....?

uniformcollector
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Glenn Close as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence

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world war I nerd
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Lee Remick as Kate Summersby in "Ike"

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Jaclyn Smith as Florence Nightingale?! ( Yeah...that's what I thought too! :o )

 

 

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His name was John Doucette.

 

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Fess Parker as Davy Crockett.

 

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William Witney as AAF General Curtis LeMay in "The wild blue yonder".

 

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world war I nerd
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Jude Law as Vassili Zaitzev in "Enemy at the Gates"

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world war I nerd
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Ed Harris as Major Erwin Koenig in "Enemy at the Gates"

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world war I nerd
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Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khruschev in "Enemy at the Gates"

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Alexei Petrenko played Josef Stalin in a BBC tv drama "World War 2 behind closed doors".

 

 

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Henry Fonda as Admiral Chester Nimitz in "Midway".

 

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Glenn Ford as Admiral Raymond Spruance in "Midway".

 

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world war I nerd
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Robert Duval as Joseph Stalin in "Stalin"

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