Over his long and successful career spanning over 50 years, he directed over 400 motion pictures, many of them highly acclaimed, such as the 1949 box office smash, Sands of Iwo Jima.

* Sands of Iwo Jima ( 1949 )

Hollywood films in the 1950s and 1960s were often inclined towards spectacular heroics or self-sacrifice in films like Sands of Iwo Jima ( 1949 ), Halls of Montezuma ( 1950 ) or D-Day the Sixth of June ( 1956 ).

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Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film starring John Wayne that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.

General Graves B. Erskine ( right ) and John Wayne ( left ) during the filming of Sands of Iwo Jima

Compared to most combat films of its time, Sands of Iwo Jima was fairly nuanced in its view of war and military people.

The 1982 Academy Award nominated comedy short film The Great Cognito makes an implied reference to Sands of Iwo Jima.

The episode shows the NCIS character Timothy McGee watching the documentary To the Shores of Iwo Jima when Anthony DiNozzo comes up and starts talking about the movie Sands of Iwo Jima, since parts are from the documentary.

Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers has a song titled " The Sands of Iwo Jima " on its 2004 album The Dirty South.

He asks his great-uncle, a World War II veteran, if The Sands of Iwo Jima represents the war properly ; the old man smiles, shakes his head and responds, " I never saw John Wayne on the sands of Iwo Jima.

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* Sands of Iwo Jima ( 1949 )

However, by the mid-1940s Yates was producing better-quality pictures, even mounting big-budget fare like The Quiet Man, Sands of Iwo Jima, Johnny Guitar and The Maverick Queen.

* Sands of Iwo Jima ( 1949 )

He served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1944 to 1949 then starred in two of the most remembered war films of 1949: Battleground and Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne.

* Sands of Iwo Jima ( 1949 )

He immediately landed a minor role in the film Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne.

At Republic, he made his breakthrough in Sands of Iwo Jima ( 1949 ), as PFC Thomas, a Marine with a score to settle with John Wayne's Sergeant Stryker.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

The main result was a growth in the building of large and attractive houses, especially down the hill from Wester Aberdour to the West Sands.

Kidd also visited Block Island around 1699, where he was supplied by Mrs. Mercy ( Sands ) Raymond, daughter of the mariner James Sands.

Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 ( finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding !, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim ), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy.

Howard Carter was born in London, England, the son of Samuel Carter, an artist and Martha Joyce ( Sands ) Carter.

During World War II, the first atomic bombs were designed and manufactured at Los Alamos and the first was tested at Trinity site in the desert on the White Sands Proving Grounds between Socorro and Alamogordo.

Since the University of Illinois was unhappy with the company's use of the Mosaic name, the company changed its name to Netscape Communications ( thought up by Product Manager Greg Sands ) and named its flagship web browser Netscape Navigator.

In Britain, the term " spy novel " was defined by The Riddle of the Sands ( 1903 ) by Robert Erskine Childers.

The fort was towed to a position above the Rough Sands sandbar, where its base was deliberately flooded to allow it to sink to its final resting place on the sandbar.

The music was written to the tune of " The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald " by Gordon Lightfoot and the lyrics by the famous Irish Republican Bobby Sands.

Vega became the first solitary main-sequence star beyond the Sun known to be an X-ray emitter when in 1979 it was observed from an imaging X-ray telescope launched on an Aerobee 350 from the White Sands Missile Range.

Even after the election of Bobby Sands as MP for Fermanagh / South Tyrone, a part of the mass mobilization associated with the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike by republican prisoners in the H blocks of the Maze prison ( known as Long Kesh by Republicans ), Adams was cautious about the level of political involvement by Sinn Féin.

This, along with the election of Bobby Sands, was a precursor to a big electoral breakthrough in elections in 1982 to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Outside the prison in a major publicity coup, Sands was nominated for Parliament and won the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election.

But the British government was still resisting and on 5 May, after 66 days on hunger strike, Sands died.

The valley was one of eight candidate sites to detonate the first atomic bomb when White Sands Proving Ground was selected for the Trinity ( nuclear test ).

On the island of Anglesey a new embankment across the Stanley Sands to Holyhead was constructed, but the crossing of the Menai Strait was the most formidable challenge, overcome by the Menai Suspension Bridge ( 1819 – 1826 ).

A US Army ( formerly German ) V-2 rocket as part of Project Hermes was launched from White Sands Proving Grounds.

Bioprecipitation, the concept of rain-making bacteria, was proposed by David Sands from Montana State University.

This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles ( 56 km ) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the new White Sands Proving Ground, which incorporated the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range.