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Objective, Burma!

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Objective, Burma!	comment	Objective, Burma! is a 1945 World War II film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Errol Flynn.The time setting is a little vague but appears to be 1944. Captain Nelson (Flynn) is head of an elite squad of American paratroopers in the Burma theater of war. The Allies are planning an advance into Burma, and Nelson's squad has been given a special mission: parachute into Burma and destroy a key Japanese radar station. Afterwards they will march to an abandoned airfield, built by the British shortly before the Japanese conquered Burma, where they are to be taken out of enemy territory by American planes.Nelson and his band of 33 paratroopers, accompanied by newspaper correspondent Mark Williams, parachute into Burma, 150 miles behind Japanese lines. The mission goes off without a hitch, the Americans mounting a surprise attack on the radar station and destroying it, annihilating the Japanese garrison without losing a man. However, the Japanese, now alerted to the presence of the enemy, pursue aggressively and intercept the Americans at the airfield. Nelson and his men escape but, unable to rendezvous with the planes, are forced to make a harrowing long march over land to safety.Inspired by… the exploits of "Merrill's Marauders", a Real Life American special operations unit that did in fact operate deep in the Japanese rear in Burma (although they weren't paratroopers).
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Objective, Burma! / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Objective, Burma! / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The opening narration explains that "the operation was about to begin its objective—Burma!"
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Objective, Burma! / int_2f36acf1	type	Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras
Objective, Burma! / int_2f36acf1	comment	Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras: Lots of kookaburras cawing in the jungles of Burma, which is weird since they only live in Australia.
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Objective, Burma! / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Objective, Burma! / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The men are upset and even Nelson is mystified when they're ordered to turn around and make for a hill further in the Japanese rear rather than continue back to Allied lines. It turns out that they were used as a decoy force, which works when the British enter Burma and Nelson and what's left of his squad are flown out. But the melancholy look on Nelson's face as he enters the glider shows he's well aware of the high price paid.
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Objective, Burma! / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Objective, Burma! / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: The setting is established with some stock footage of Allied commanders in Burma planning operations.
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Objective, Burma! / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Objective, Burma! / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Williams, who despite being at least twice the age of the soldiers in the squad accompanies them on the mission. He claims to have parachuted frequently, but Nelson notices that he put his gear on upside down.
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Objective, Burma! / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Objective, Burma! / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Hollis has been seriously wounded while out on patrol. Nelson muses that he should leave Hollis behind, that the rest of the squad needs to keep moving and he'll slow them down. Then he says "I can't do it," and has the men carry him on a stretcher.
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Objective, Burma! / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Objective, Burma! / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: Not just a board! Nelson's unit actually has a 3-D scale model of the sector where they are to make the drop, hills, river valleys, and all.
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Objective, Burma! / int_8ef99dbb	type	Pin-Pulling Teeth
Objective, Burma! / int_8ef99dbb	comment	Pin-Pulling Teeth: Nelson himself pulls the pin of a grenade with his teeth before chucking it at the Japanese soldiers in the radar station.
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Objective, Burma! / int_9ab2d4a	type	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In
Objective, Burma! / int_9ab2d4a	comment	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: In the opening scenes some of the Americans in camp are practicing throwing knives into a tree. This pays off during a combat sequence, when an American throws a knife into the back of a Japanese soldier. The enemy soldier manages to turn around and raise his gun, only for the American to throw a second knife into his chest to finish him off.
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Objective, Burma! / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Objective, Burma! / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: For an entire garrison of Japanese soldiers. After ambushing and annihilating the garrison at the radar station, the Americans step through the corpses as they set the explosive charges to blow the place up. Not a single Japanese soldier is shown to move, none need to be finished off; they all died right away in classic Instant Death Bullet style.
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Objective, Burma! / int_a7c904c3	type	America Won World War II
Objective, Burma! / int_a7c904c3	comment	America Won World War II: One of the most notorious examples of this trope. Technically justified, at least in the sense that the plot was Inspired by… Merrill's Marauders, a real American special forces unit that really did operate behind enemy lines in Burma. However, the approximately 3,000 Marauders were the only American infantry forces in the China-Burma-India theater, as compared to over a million British, Indian, and Commonwealth troops under the command of General Bill Slim. This movie was rapidly withdrawn from British theaters in 1945 in the face of public outrage over the portrayal of American troops fighting in what was actually an almost wholly British theater. (Reportedly Winston Churchill himself was pissed off by Objective, Burma!.)
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Objective, Burma! / int_b5ba2c2b	type	It's Raining Men
Objective, Burma! / int_b5ba2c2b	comment	It's Raining Men The men parachute behind enemy lines. Again at the end, when what's left of Nelson's squad is saved by British paratroopers dropping as part of the invasion of Burma. One of the Americans nearly manages to be the Trope Namer when he says "It's raining parachutes!"
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Objective, Burma! / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
Objective, Burma! / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Some pretty crisp shadows being thrown at 0315 when Nelson and his men are mustering at the air field.
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Objective, Burma! / int_cd30716e	type	Boring Return Journey
Objective, Burma! / int_cd30716e	comment	Boring Return Journey: Inverted. The mission goes off flawlessly, but the attack on the radar station comes only a third of the way through the movie. The remaining two-thirds follows the men on the desperate journey back, which eventually gets diverted.
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Objective, Burma! / int_e67ff203	type	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
Objective, Burma! / int_e67ff203	comment	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Discussed Trope. A soldier says that his jealous girlfriend wrote to ask what his girlfriend in Bombay has that she doesn't have. He answered her by saying "Nothing, honey, only she's got it here in Bombay!"
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Objective, Burma! / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Objective, Burma! / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Nelson makes it back with only 11 of his 33 men, the rest, along with Williams the reporter, having died along the way.
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