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Merrill's Marauders (1962) Facts
| Director(s) | Samuel Fuller |
| Producer(s) | Milton Sperling |
| Featured Cast | Jeff Chandler, Claude Akins, John Hoyt, Chuck Roberson, Chuck Hayward |
| Total Facts | 5 |
Bannister, Merrill's Aide de camp, was played by Lt. Col. Samuel Vaughan Wilson (credited as Vaughan Wilson), who was actually one of "Merrill's Marauders" and a survivor of the campaign.
In the battle at Shaduzup, the huge triangular sets of concrete blocks in the rail yard, where the close-in fighting took place, were originally built to support huge fuel tanks used to fill up the engines as they were leaving the yard.
Jeff Chandler's final film.
This movie was released in 1962. At the end of the movie there is a parade review that features the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Samuel Fuller:
[Lemchek]
A recurring character name in Fuller's films.