Re: Dutch-made Korean War Film

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

I was stationed in Korea when they were filming it and
I have a copy on video.

Mike Davino



--- DasHaas@aol.com wrote:
> Sat
> 
>        I may be the last one of "us" to see this
> film, but has anyone else 
> seen "Field of Honor," the Korean War film (1986)
> about the Dutch infantry 
> battalion in the Korean War?  This is a fiction
> film, produced by the Dutch 
> with the cooperation of the South Koreans, and was
> filmed near the DMZ.  It 
> was written or directed (can't remember which) by a
> Dutchman who was an 
> officer with their battalion during the war.
> 
>        Not actually so much about the battalion
> itself, but rather about the 
> experiences of a particularly hard core NCO trapped
> behind enemy lines after 
> his unit got overrun by the Chinese.  I gave it a B+
> until about the last two 
> minutes, whereupon Dutch Hollywood collapsed with a
> scene that would please 
> our Hollywood in its hokiness.
> 
> Col. Mike Haas, USAF, ret., author
> Apollo's Warriors:  US Air Force Special Operations
> during the Cold War
> In the Devil's Shadow:  UN Special Operations during
> the Korean War
> 
> 


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