“GUNG HO!”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 307, 23 September 1944, Page 5

“GUNG HO!”

The war today is moving no fast that headlines become history almost before the papers are off the press, lhe raid by U.S. Marines on Makin Island is au old storv now. but in "Gung Hol’ (laramount) it makes an outstanding war him, one of the very best of its kind Ivo seen. The film is officially described as a tactual record of the preparation and action of the second rulder battalion, a unit specially formed bv Colonel Carlson, shortly after Pearl Harbour, in order to undertake this raid. Colonel Carlson himself, we are told, was one of the few Americans 'J’no saw that war with Japan was inevitable, and he resigned his commission in the Marine Corps in order to join the Chinese Army, to gain experience in fighting the “sons of heaven.” He brought back to America, when the war broke out, new ideas' on training men for fighting the Japanese, and a Chinese motto: “Gung Ho!” „ The film traces the development of the raiding party from the time volunteers are first accepted, till, with the original 1500 pruned down to the last they carry out. the brilliant raid which ed Makin Island as a base. It s a thrilling story, and an absorbing one. and this Walter Wanger production makes the most of it.