"Kids Living to the Deadly Thrill of Jump and Kill!"01 February 1959Drama, War71 mins
Charlie becomes a paratrooper, but, while serving in North Africa, he mistakenly kills one of his fellow U.S. soldiers, who is masquerading as a Nazi in order to wipe out a nest of the enemy. Shunned by his fellow soldiers, including his childhood friend Ace, Charlie is forced to prove himself when it is left up to him to transport a generator across an open road in full view of Nazi attackers.
Untold and lost history. A true story of the American Pathfinders, the volunteer paratroopers whose deadly mission was to land 30 minutes before the Normandy invasion, locate and mark strategic "drop zones" and set up the top-secret navigation equipment needed to guide the main airborne assault on D-Day.
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy.
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Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from.
A paratrooper drops behind enemy lines to rescue the deposed king of a mythical Balkan nation.
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DRIVE-IN CLASSIC: 'PARATROOP COMMAND' (1959) Richard Bakalyan Ken Lynch Jack Hogan
Approved | 1h 11min | Drama War | February 1959 (USA) Kids Living To The Deadly Thrill Of Jump And Kill! A squad member of the Paratroop unit in WWII ...
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