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Barry Sadler's best selling 1966 song Ballad of the Green Berets was used as the theme song for John Wayne's The Green Berets (1968).... more
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Barry Sadler's best selling 1966 song "Ballad of the Green Berets" was used as the theme song for John Wayne's "The Green Berets" (1968).
Sadler had an extensive collection of machine guns and original Nazi memorabilia.
He was impressed by the German war machine of WW2. His hat is one worn by troops in Rommel's Africa Korps. The camouflage jacket dates from the Viet Nam war where he served as a medic in the Green Berets.
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Sadler (1940-1989) launched "Casca The Mercenary" series in 1979. He was shot in the head in Guatemala City in 1988 and died 14 months later, a withered vegetable of a man.
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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