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The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr., and Jules Schermer. It was nominated for a now-discontinued Academy Award for Best Story.
The Sullivan brothers were five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa who served together on the light cruiser USS Juneau. They were all killed in action when Juneau served in the Naval battle of Guadalcanal , November 13th, 1942.
The Fighting Sullivans: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan. The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression.
In this dramatization of a true story, five brothers from Iowa (James Cardwell, John Campbell, George Offerman Jr., John Alvin, Edward Ryan) grow up in an inseparable family during...
May 9, 2017 · In the late evening and early morning of November 12-13, 1942, the United States and Japan engaged in one of the most brutal naval battles of World War II.
Nov 15, 2000 · The True Story of the Fighting Sullivans. On Friday, November 13, 1942, all five Sullivan brothers from Iowa were serving aboard the U.S.S. Juneau when a Japanese torpedo hit. 400 died instantly; 150 or so bobbed helplessly in shark-infested water.
A serious piece of sentimental wartime propaganda, The Fighting Sullivans came in answer to one of the biggest media events of the home front: On November 12, 1942 five brothers of the Sullivan family, all serving on the U.S.S. Juneau, were killed in action when the ship was sunk by the Japanese. The news of the Sullivans hit hard.
The fighting in the Pacific grows more intense as war rages off the Solomon Islands, and one night during a fierce nighttime battle on November 13, 1942, the Juneau is hit by Japanese gunfire. Four of the brothers find each other, then realize that George is below in sick bay.
In this dramatization of a true story, five brothers from Iowa (James Cardwell, John Campbell, George Offerman Jr., John Alvin, Edward Ryan) grow up in an inseparable...
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Written by CinemaSerf on June 30, 2022. The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.
