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unusual facts about Behind Enemy Lines


Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

It was followed by another direct-to-video sequel, Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia, which stars the professional wrestler Ken Anderson.


Sam Jaeger

His career gained speed when he managed to get roles in well known feature films as Traffic (2000) and Behind Enemy Lines (2001).

San Gabriel Dam

The dam appears in the 2001 action/war film Behind Enemy Lines, starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman, and is set in southern Bosnia.


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Bernard Hoffman

:Dropped via parachute behind enemy lines in the Burmese jungle in 1943, Hoffman brought back the story of the trapped battalion of Merrill's Marauders.

Doyle Yardley

During the invasion of Italy, the 509th was dropped behind enemy lines near Avellino.

Ethel Cooper

Caroline Ethel Cooper (25 December 1871 - 25 May 1961) was an Australian trombonist best known for the letters she wrote to her sister Emmie in Australia while she was trapped behind enemy lines in Leipzig during World War I.

Foreign internal defense

Another example is where HN personnel guide a successful rescue effort in denied area, as Nguyen Van Kiet did with a United States Navy SEAL companion, Thomas R. Norris behind enemy lines.

Goodfellow Air Force Base

On 14 September 1918, 1st Lieutenant John J. Goodfellow, Jr., of San Angelo, Texas, boarded his Salmson 2A2 observation plane at Gondreville Airfield in France to conduct visual reconnaissance behind enemy lines.

Konstantin Mamontov

During the march on Moscow, Mamontov and his men carried out in August 1919 a raid behind enemy lines to disrupt the rear of the Red Army.

Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani

In March 1958, Moerdani parachuted down behind enemy lines in Pekanbaru and Medan to prepare the groundwork for ABRI to take over the two cities.

Malcolm Munthe

Later recruited to the Special Operations Executive, he worked behind enemy lines in occupied Scandinavia - both in Norway and Sweden - as a spy and saboteur, famously blowing up a Nazi munitions train some 70 miles from his own family home in Leksand, Dalarna.

Nguyễn Văn Kiệt

When Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton was shot down behind enemy lines, aerial combat search and rescue operations failed, leading to the loss of five additional aircraft and the death of 11 or more airmen, two captured, and three more down and needing rescue.

No. 148 Squadron RAF

It dropped men and materiel behind enemy lines in the occupied countries such as Yugoslavia, Poland etc.

One Who Came Back

One Who Came Back is a 1951 American short documentary film produced by Owen Crump and the National Organization of Disabled American Veterans, about an American soldier wounded in the Korean War, rescued from behind enemy lines and transported back to the United States.

Ricardo C. Binns

On the evening of 13 June 1966, Binns's platoon of 18, under the leadership of then-Staff Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard were dropped behind enemy lines atop Hill 488, known to locals as Nui Vu, near Chu Lai and Tam Kỳ, with a mission to observe enemy troop movements in the Hiệp Đức Valley, and call in artillery and airstrikes.

Rick Moffat

Born October 8, 1960 in Lachine, Quebec, he was one of five children born to James Moffat, a decorated World War 2 hero with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Belgian and French Resistance whose wartime memoir was published in "Behind Enemy Lines", and to Anne Dosman Moffat, a Prairie survivor of the Depression and the Dustbowl of Saskatchewan in the 1930s.

Sir Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet

When France fell in World War II he was assigned to the embassy in Madrid, where he organized escape routes for Allied servicemen caught behind enemy lines from 1940 to 1944 .

William Colby

During World War II, he parachuted behind enemy lines twice and earned the Silver Star as well as commendations from Norway, France, and Great Britain.