The Story of G.I. Joe

Introduction and comments following The Story Of G.I. Joe, 1945, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guest Anderson Cooper.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Story Of G.I. Joe, 1945.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Story Of G.I. Joe, 1945.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Story Of G.I. Joe, 1945.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Story Of G.I. Joe, 1945.

Soldiers including Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell, Robert Mitchum, Burgess Meredith as newsman Ernie Pyle, in North Africa, hear Artie Shaw, "Axis Sally" (voice of Shelley Mitchell) and "Linda," sung by Ann Ronell, suggesting surrender, in William A. Wellman's The Story Of G.I. Joe, 1945.

Opening credits followed by soldiers under the command of Lt. Walker (Robert Mitchum), North Africa, 1944, adopting two scrappy old dogs, one of whom is Correspondent Ernie Pyle (Burgess Meredith) in The Story Of G.I. Joe, 1945.

Still in North Africa, Burgess Meredith as war correspondent Ernie Pyle, killed in action in Japan before this film by William A. Wellman, based on his dispatches, was released, steps out of the column, hears from some soldiers, and begins one of his famous narrations, from The Story of G.I. Joe, 1945.

Capt. Walker (Robert Mitchum) and Sgt. Warnicki (Freddie Steele) in William A. Wellman's landmark shootout sequence in a bombed-out Sicilian church, from The Story of G.I. Joe, 1945.