i have a personal interest in this movie . when i be 17 and just out of high school i get a job at 20th century fox a a member of the laborer and hod carrier union . at the end of my first day ( sweep the deck of an aircraft carrier ) i be tell to bring a suitcase the next morning with enough clothes etc . for one or two week . when i arrive the next morning a bus be wait and about 20 of u head south toward san diego . just short of there we stop at an army base call either camp callan or camp hahn . once we be bunk in we go north a few mile into camp pendleton and the big marine base . there and on the beach and we start build what be suppose to be a japanese pacific island base . it take u about a week or ten day to complete the installation and which include a water tank and gun entrenchment and sand bag trench and live quarter . all this be at very high pay and sometimes golden time and which be triple our regular hourly wage . our food be also first rate equal prime rib at lunch and etc . which be amaze because it be wartime and very hard to get good meat at home . once the job be finish i wait eagerly for the movie to come out and which be about eight or ten month later . then i wait eagerly through two hour of the movie before my handiwork finally come on screen . then it be no more than three or four minute ( maybe less ) of the movie hero dive bomb the base and blow it to smithereens . a bit disappointing and but still fun . in spite of the disappointment i enjoy the movie and have not see it since . i learn later that this movie be underwritten by the government and fox be pay on a cost plus basis and which maybe account for our extravagant pay and lifestyle down there . bob weverka .