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The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a 2022 American biographical war comedy drama film directed and co-written by Peter Farrelly, based on the book of the same name by John "Chickie" Donohue and Joanna Molloy.
John "Chickie" Donohue (born 1941) is an American former United States Marine, merchant seaman and trade unionist. He is best known for his 1968 journey through Vietnam where he delivered beer to several United States service members during the height of the Vietnam War.
Sep 22, 2022 · The Greatest Beer Run Ever fact-check confirms that John Donohue (known as "Chick" or "Chickie") was a Marine Corps veteran in late 1967 when he decided to go track down his friends in Vietnam and give them beer. During his four years in the military as a private, he had been stationed in the Phillippines and Japan.
Dec 14, 2021 · In November 1967, Marine Corps veteran John Donohue snuck into Vietnam to deliver some beer to his friends who were fighting in the war.
Aug 19, 2022 · While those are all iconic, there’s only one beer-laden tale that holds the distinction of being “the greatest beer run ever,” and it occurred during the Vietnam War. This is the story of US Marine Corps veteran John “Chickie” Donohue and his quest to deliver beer to his friends serving overseas.
Sep 27, 2022 · “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” tells the story of Chickie Donohue’s unlikely but true adventure bringing suds from New York to his military pals in 1967 Vietnam.
Sep 25, 2022 · In 1967 "Chickie" Donohue, a merchant seaman, was inspired to deliver beers to buddies who were fighting in an unpopular war. And so, he packed up some suds and sailed for Vietnam to track them...
Oct 10, 2021 · When the guys at Doc Fiddler’s bar in New York City decided that somebody ought to take cold beer to neighborhood boys in Vietnam as a show of support, former Marine John “Chickie” Donohue was quick to volunteer.
Nov 11, 2020 · In 1967, John "Chick" Donohue set out to make a beer run for some friends in his neighborhood. But this wasn’t any old beer run — 26-year-old Donohue traveled more than 8,000 miles...
Sep 28, 2021 · A wildly entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and former U.S. marine who embarked on a courageous, hare-brained scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving Vietnam in the late 1960s. One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar.
- John "Chick" Donohue, J. T. Molloy
