Compared to all of Europe, America's involvement in the two world wars was relatively short. But what they did during that time established the United States as a huge fighter for peace, and if it wasn't on the battle front, it was in the air, on the seas, and in this case, on a motion picture screen. Warner Brothers entered the propaganda fight with "Confessions of a Nazi Spy", and when their A list stars weren't playing heroes of the fight for peace, young hopefuls were in short films that had equal influence on the movie going public to remain patriotic and loyal to those risking their lives. Even the women got in on the action, here focusing on female sergeant instructor Andrea King who teaches trainee Warren Douglas how to use movies as a training tool for shooting down enemy planes. While he flirts, she shows him what the women were doing in military service. O.K., so the women weren't pilots or officers of high rank, but they did have a job to do, so this documentary drama shows how necessary women were to help win the war. Pretty good for propaganda, and with positive feminist messages too, giving an indication of things to come when the boys came home. As King says, "It's about being in the show rather than just being in the audience."
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Proudly We Serve is an interesting tribute to the women in uniform
tavm21 March 2010
Just watched this short on the Hollywood Canteen DVD. In this one, a Marine soldier recounts to his buddies how he trained to be a fighter pilot under a woman he eventually falls for...What was interesting to watch was how this man thinks he knows all about what women are like by simply looking at the way they position themselves at various places around the restaurant before his female instructor, who knows them all personally, tells him what they really are. Obviously, the point was to depict how valuable women were to the armed forces and how worthy of respect they are. But that doesn't stop the director from having the leading lady also dress glamorously or appear in a one-piece swimsuit in a few scenes. Still, Proudly We Serve is worth a look for anyone interested in these rarities.
Even before "Don't Ask\Don't Tell," the U.S. Marines . . .
oscaralbert10 June 2017
Warning: Spoilers
. . . were pioneering HETEROSEXUAL Maneuvers as the winning strategy to clinch Victory in America's Grandest War to date, the Second World Apocalypalooza. Churned out by the U.S. War Department of Propagrandiosity, PROUDLY WE SERVE documents how each Yankee Leatherneck targeted for a key gunnery position was assigned his own personal Wonder Woman trainer, holding the same military rank as himself. "You girls," as Sgt. Tex Gordon tags these distaff divisions, could not only out-shoot their male trainees, but also whip their butts at most sports, including tennis, swimming, and baseball. Each of these 19,000 instructor chicks looked "mighty sweet in uniform" (Tex again) and hailed from Blue Blood Mansions of 20 rooms or more. Guys successfully completing their training were expected to marry their Military Mentress. (See the feature-length follow-up to PROUDLY WE SERVE which fleshes out Tex and his Sgt. Christy Marlowe's Honeymoon, DRILL SERGEANTS.) Since U.S. Axis Enemy Japan lacked any kind of incentive program comparable to that of the U.S. Marines, Tex is easily able to destroy the last remnant of the Japanese Air Force to conclude PROUDLY WE SERVE.
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