The Big Red One

[Windwalker1950]

I hope that this gets released as a Blu Ray. It's an excellent WWII story about the 1st infantry Division in the European Theater
A story of a WWII squad consisting of an anonymous sergeant and four long-time survivors who ignore the faceless replacements who continually arrive and die
A US Army sergeant who participated in the First World War now leads a rifle squad in the same division in which he's served, the First Infantry. The squad participates in combat action from storming Vichy French Africa into the long seige of Sicily and Italy, into D-Day at Omaha Beach, and onward through the push to Germany
The beginning and the end of the story are touching and are a grim statement of how the Nazi atrocities affected our GI's during the liberation of the Nazi Death Camps.
Lee Marvin has a "Tour de Force" roll in the film
Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker of Star Wars fame has one of the most powerful scenes in the film. So listen carefully to the background in the Death Camp liberation scene.

I highly recommend it. Hopefully it will be successfully transferred to Blu Ray