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Highly fictionalized account of the formation of the US Army's First Ranger Battalion in World War II and their first commanding officer Major (later, Lieutenant-Colonel) Orlando Darby. The idea was to create a US unit along the lines of the British commandos. In this account, which focuses on several fictional characters, the story is initially on their training in Scotland and the lives and loves their encounter while there. Their first combat mission was in the invasion of North Africa in 1942, followed by the invasion of Sicily and then Italy itself, including the amphibious landing at Anzio..
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Torin Thatcher
Sgt. McTavish
Venetia Stevenson
Peggy McTavish
Etchika Choureau
Angelina De Lotta / Dittmann
James Garner
Col. William Orlando Darby
Jack Warden
MSgt. Saul Rosen / Narrator
Murray Hamilton
Pvt. / Sgt. Sims Delancey
Stuart Whitman
Sgt. / SSgt. / Sfc. Hank Bishop
Joan Elan
Wendy Hollister, Bishop's girl in London
Peter Brown
Pvt. / Cpl. Rollo Burns
Corey Allen
Pvt. Pittsburgh Tony Sutherland
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