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Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
IMDB rating: 7.10
Plot: John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker’s from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose father was Stryker’s CO at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft and cowardly to be a Marine. The squad grows more and more resentful at Stryker’s increasingly brutal training regimen and his lack of sympathy for the varied personal problems of the recruits, but his determination to mold them into fighting men helps save their lives when the squad is landed at Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker risks his life to blow up a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered Marines trapped at a log wall. The now battle-tested squad becomes more closely-knit and Stryker’s relationship with the men warms as the squad eventually finds itself in the bloodiest island battle of the war, at Iwo Jima.
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Actors: Wayne John,Agar John,Tucker Forrest,Cassell Wally,Brown James,Webb Richard,Franz Arthur,Holden James,Coe Peter,Jaeckel Richard,Murphy William,Tyne George,Baylor Hal,McGuire John,Milner Martin,Action,Drama,War,Romance,
Why do marines remove the helmet chinstrap?
In the 1949 classic, ‘the Sands of Iwo Jima’ as marines descend from the ship onto the landing craft sergeant Styker, played by John Wayne instructs one of his marines to unbuckle his chinstrap. The next frame shows scores of marines all with their helmets unstrapped.
Why did Stryker gesture to his marine to unfasten the chinstrap on his helmet?
Could it be that a fastened helmet could be an impediment if the marine were to fall in the water, as the helmet could fill with water?
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During World War II and later, many soldiers wore the webbing chinstraps unfastened or looped around the back of the helmet and clipped together. This practice arose for two reasons: First, because hand-to-hand combat was anticipated, and an enemy could be expected to attack from behind, reach over the helmet, grab its visor, and pull. If the chinstrap were worn, the head would be snapped back, causing the victim to lose balance, and leave the throat and stomach exposed to a knife thrust. Secondly, many men incorrectly believed that a nearby exploding bomb or artillery shell could cause the chinstrap to snap their neck when the helmet was caught in its concussive force, although a replacement buckle, the T-1 pressure-release buckle, was manufactured which allowed the chinstrap to become automatically unclipped should this occur. In place of the chinstrap, the nape strap inside the liner was counted on to provide sufficient contact to keep the helmet from easily falling off the wearer’s head
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Technically we were supposed to wear them.
SSG US Army 73-82
Wayne C | Mar 09, 2008
because if you got hit on the helmet with the chinstrap on, it could break your neck, if the chinstrap is off, it would just knock the helmet off
There is no spoon | Mar 09, 2008
it looks cooler unbuckled that’s the only reason.
darrell m | Mar 09, 2008
besides it was a movie not reality, it was the movie that started the misnomer Lock and load! THEY were using m-1 rifles, you cannot load the magazine with the bolt locked!
mlbjock_58 | Mar 09, 2008
First off it was in the script. Second it would take a larger caliber round than small arms fire to actually snap a neck. Third, it is unauthorized to wear the K-Pod or ballistics helmet with out the chinstrap off. With that being said, with all the movement from one cover to another you risk the possibility of the helmet to fall off and then you are guaranteed to take a kill shot to the head.
acot_anthonym | Mar 09, 2008
if their is an expolsion near by and your chin strap is fastened it could blow off and break your neck so to keep your head on and not break your neck from the bomb or expolsic=ve devise undo always the chin stap….that is the answer.sempir fi
caos | Mar 09, 2008
