The character Bannister was played by Lt.Col. Samuel Vaughan Wilson, who was an actual member of Merrill's Marauders and one of the few survivors of the actual campaign.
Bannister:
Do you know what I'm going to do after the war? I'm going to get married and have six kids. Then I'm going to line them up and tell them what Burma was like. And if they don't cry, I'll beat the hell out of them.
When Merrill is writing his letter at the railhead, the closeup shows his writing is well up in the top third of the paper, but in the wider shot he is seen writing under the middle of the page.
Opening credits prologue: JANUARY 1942
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