The Fighting Sullivans: How Hollywood and the Military Make Heroes - Hardcoverby Bruce Kuklick (Author) In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during the most ferocious naval engagement fought in the South Pacific. The family's loss, the most extraordinary for the United States in its military history, was immortalized and valorized in the 1944 film The Fighting Sullivans. This book tells the story of how calamity, with the help of Hollywood and