Most Similar Movies to They Were Expendable (1945)
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So Proudly We Hail (1943), The Cruel Sea (1953), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Dunkirk (2017), The Longest Day (1962), Attack! (1956), Eye in the Sky (2015) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

So Proudly We Hail (1943)
A group of nurses returning from the war in the Phillippines recall their experiences in combat and in love.
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The Cruel Sea (1953)
The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Lt. Col. James Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) leads B-25s off the USS Hornet's deck on a 1942 mission to bomb Japan.
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Dunkirk (2017)
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
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The Longest Day (1962)
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
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Attack! (1956)
In 1945, an American Infantry company sets up an artillery observation post, but tensions between Captain Cooney and Lieutenant Costa run high.
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Eye in the Sky (2015)
Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.
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The Wooden Horse (1950)
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.
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The Desert Fox (1951)
The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel.
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Midway (2019)
The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.
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Operation Pacific (1951)
During WWII, a submarine's second in command inherits the problem of torpedoes that don't explode. When on shore, he is eager to win back his ex-wife.
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The Desert Rats (1953)
Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.
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The Great Raid (2005)
Taking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.
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San Demetrio, London (1943)
The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U-boats the crew must keep her afloat and out of harms way.
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Halls of Montezuma (1950)
A company of Marines races against the clock to find a Japanese rocket base.
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Up Periscope (1959)
In 1942, Navy Lieutenant Kenneth Braden from the underwater demolition team is sent to a Japanese island to photograph secret radio codes.
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The Frogmen (1951)
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
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Hell River (1974)
Partisans in Yugoslavia clash with the Germans that have invaded their homeland in several confrontations until the climactic battle at Hell River.
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