Objective, Burma! March (1945)

The Objective, Burma! March was featured in the Warner Brothers’ film of the same name. The plot involves Errol Flynn and three dozen paratroopers being dropped into a Burmese jungle to find and destroy a Japanese radar station. Flynn believed in this film and gave one of his best performances.

In 1945, Waxman composed the music for five films set in World War II — including Hotel Berlin, God Is My Co-Pilot, Pride of the Marines, and Confidential Agent. His score for Objective, Burma! earned Waxman his fourth Academy Award nomination and was the best of a year that also included To Have and Have Not. Almost twenty years later, the Objective, Burma! score was re-used, in part, by Warner Brothers in their films Up Periscope and P.T. 109.