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Director Alister Grierson was chosen for the job due to his success with Kokoda, a true story about a platoon of soldiers lost in the jungle.

Mr. Ermey, who went by "Gunny," played an even more nightmarish instructor in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987), about a platoon of Marine recruits deployed to Vietnam.

Walsh tackled his most-daunting literary source with The Naked and the Dead (1958), adapted from Norman Mailer's novel about a platoon of American soldiers trying to capture a Pacific island during World War II.

Set in World War II, the movie, which Clooney has directed, written and stars in, is about a platoon of soldiers on a mission to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.

The paperback edition of "Fields of Fire," Mr. Webb's critically acclaimed 1978 novel about a platoon of Marines in Vietnam, was originally published by Bantam Books, whose 10-year license expired last year.

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien This is a novel, but I always shelve it with my reportage books, about a platoon of US soldiers in Vietnam, based on his own experiences in the 23rd Infantry Division.

General Rose was about to send a platoon of British soldiers and Warrior armored vehicles to the checkpoint on the road between Sarajevo and Kiseljak, west of the city, when Bosnian Serb militiamen reopened it, said a United Nations spokesman, Maj.

Later in the day, obviously tipped off about a cache of guns, a platoon of American troops rumbled up Rasool Street to the gates of the shrine and began searching sidewalks and cars.

About 20 rebels opened fire on a platoon of American and Afghan soldiers in broad daylight, wounding at least six other soldiers before retreating across the border to Pakistan, as many attackers have in recent weeks.

A platoon of E Company, except for about 10 men, also left its position on the mountain as soon as the attack progressed.

"With 35 men, a platoon of Easy Company routed two German companies of about 300 men," the book says.