Away All Boats (1956)

I served on the USS Randal APA224 from 1944 thur 1946, our ship traveled a lot of miles in the Pacific. We were in on the invasion of Iwo Jima and Okanawa . We had a great crew. I was a pointer on the 5 inch gun.and a member of the deck crew, RSun the winches that put the boats in the water and can remember banging a few on the side of the ship when we first started doing it, Just lke the movie, would injoy hearing from anyof old shipmates during that time period My name is Donald N. Chilson and a shipmate lives close by , his name is Hank Sperl ,he was a quartermaster. my email is dnchils5@aol.com

I served aboard the USS Randall APA-224 1951-1955 as a Morse Code Radioman (RM-2) during the filing of Away All Boats. I happened to be a boat radioman aboard an LCVP during some of the filming of landing scenes. I haven't seen the movie for quite some time but recall a few of the scenes being filmed in the Carribean near the Island of Vieques (on which some of the beach scenes were filmed). I had a (tape) copy of the film which I wartched every few years and shared with my fmaily and grandkids....but somehow it became lost during one of our household moves. Loved the movie....very few war films centered around the Marines/ Amphibious Forces which played a very special role in our country's military successes in the Pacific during WWII. wuniron@aol.com