Gung Ho!
★ 5.5 · 1943 · 88m · Action · Adventure · Drama · War
A true-life epic that revolves around an exclusive bataillon of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, "Carlson's Raiders," whose assignment is to take control of a South Pacific island once possessed by the United States but now under Japanese command.
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