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Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence. A lieutenant colonel is typically in charge of a battalion in the army.
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Ralph Peters (born 1952) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel and author. As a novelist he has sometimes written under the pen name Owen Parry.
Peters was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania and grew up in Schuylkill Haven. His father was a coal miner and unsuccessful businessman. His wife, Katherine McIntire Peters, is a reporter for Government Executive magazine (a property of National Journal Group, Inc.).
Peters enlisted in the Army as a private in 1976, after attending Pennsylvania State University. His first assignment was in Germany.
After returning from Germany, Peters attended Officer Candidate School and received a commission in 1980. Subsequently, he served with 1st Battalion, 46th Infantry Regiment, then part of the 1st Armored Division.
Peters spent ten years in Germany working in military intelligence. He later became a Foreign Area Officer, specializing in the Soviet Union. He attended the Command and General Staff College. His last assignment was to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. He retired in 1998 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Peters never saw actual combat during his tenure.
Actors: Timo Torikka (actor), Pirkka-Pekka Petelius (actor), Gustav Wiklund (actor), Asko Sarkola (actor), Åke Lindman (director), Åke Lindman (producer), Joonas Makkonen (actor), Jukka Puotila (actor), Alf Hemming (producer), Sakari Kirjavainen (editor), Sakari Kirjavainen (director), Taisto Reimaluoto (actor), Rauno Ahonen (actor), Jukka Voutilainen (actor), Marjatta Nissinen (costume designer),
Plot: The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories.
Keywords: attack, battle, battlefield, bombing, cannon, carl-gustaf-emil-mannerheim, continuation-war, finnish-soldier, karelia-finland, machine-gunActors: Nikolay Trofimov (actor), Venyamin Basner (composer), Stepan Krylov (actor), Aleksey Kozhevnikov (actor), Aleksandr Susnin (actor), Georgiy Teykh (actor), Oleg Belov (actor), Yuri Chulyukin (writer), Sergey Dvoretskiy (actor), Aleksandr Zakharov (actor), Antonina Shuranova (actress), Nikolai Kuzmin (actor), Nikolai Fyodortsov (actor), Aleksandr Afanasev (actor), Geliy Sysoev (actor),
Genres: War,Actors: Pierre de Wet (producer), Percival Rubens (editor), Percival Rubens (director), Percival Rubens (writer), James White (actor), Kenneth Baker (actor), Reinet Maasdorp (actress), Lee Marcus (writer), Elizabeth Meyer (actress), Ivan Berold (actor), Mike Heine (actor), Charles Vernon (actor), Robert Fick (actor), Stephen O'Reilly (composer), Charles Ellis (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Maximilián Remen (editor), Ladislav Chudík (actor), Viliam Polónyi (actor), Martin Tapák (actor), Július Vasek (actor), Ivan Mistrík (actor), Palo Bielik (writer), Palo Bielik (director), Samuel Adamcík (actor), Ondrej Jariabek (actor), Elo Romancik (actor), Vladimír Kostovic (actor), Branislav Koren (actor), Ján Kramár (actor), Ctibor Filcík (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Linnéa Hillberg (actress), Gull Natorp (actress), Märta Dorff (actress), Gösta Cederlund (actor), Edvin Adolphson (actor), Artur Cederborgh (actor), Carl-Gunnar Wingård (actor), Anders Henrikson (actor), Olle Hilding (actor), Holger Löwenadler (actor), Ragnar Arvedson (actor), Astrid Bodin (actress), Anita Björk (actress), August Strindberg (writer), Håkan Westergren (actor),
Plot: The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him.
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Russell Johnson (actor), Lane Bradford (actor), David Janssen (actor), Chuck Courtney (actor), Jack Daly (actor), John Doucette (actor), Ted Hecht (actor), Benson Fong (actor), Douglas Carter (actor), Robert Bray (actor), Ken Christy (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Jack Daly (actor), Barry Kelley (actor), Ted Jordan (actor),
Plot: World War II is over; to get home quickly, GIs Willie and Joe (of cartoon fame) join the "inactive reserve." Just firmly settled back into civilian life, they're recalled for a new bout of basic training at a base in Japan. From then on, the boys are in and out of one scrape after another...topped by innocent involvement with glamorous Nida, a Eurasian Mata Hari, and her sinister friends.
Keywords: army-life, based-on-book, sequelActors: Carl M. Leviness (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Leonard Bremen (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Dick Crockett (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Donald Curtis (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Harry Depp (actor), John Carroll (actor), Sam Finn (actor), Norman Lloyd (actor),
Plot: Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
Keywords: kitten, letter, mistaken-identity, pen-pal, wartime-romance, world-war-twoActors: William B. Davidson (actor), Donald Curtis (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Fred Coby (actor), Leon Ames (actor), Pedro de Cordoba (actor), Danny Borzage (actor), Al Bridge (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Philip Ahn (actor), James Carlisle (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Blake Edwards (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor),
Plot: The fall of the Phillippines to the Japanese in World War II, and the heroism and tragedy of the defenders, as exemplified by the story of one American PT boat squadron.
Keywords: 1940s, admiral, airplane, american-flag, anchors-aweigh, animated-sequence, appleton-new-york, band, bar, based-on-bookActors: Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Crauford Kent (actor), George Jessel (actor), Paul Harvey (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Joe Haworth (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Ralph Byrd (actor), James Flavin (actor), William Forrest (actor), Reed Hadley (actor), Eddie Hall (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), George Magrill (actor),
Genres: Music, Romance, War,Actors: Jerry Jerome (actor), Paul Hurst (actor), Eddie Bracken (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Jimmie Dodd (actor), Jack Chapin (actor), Fred Graham (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Len Hendry (actor), Weldon Heyburn (actor), Bob Hope (actor), Clarence Kolb (actor),
Plot: Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?
Keywords: actor, airplane, army, army-life, autograph, california, car-accident, castor-oil, colonel, covered-in-mud