"the guy from Brooklyn"...it had to be George Tobias am I right?
It's interesting that Objective Burma! is 2 hours 20 minutes long, that's long for way back then. Today that's the usual runtime for a movie but in the 1940s an action film would be more like 1 hour 45 minutes.
I'll have to see if I can spot the Aliens frame by frame homage. I did once see a 1950s b horror film that was literally the same scene and shot in Aliens when Ripley is holding the little girl and the creature is inches from them and she tells the kid to look away. I couldn't believe I seen the same scene in this old creature feature.
You are correct. And whenever Tobias threw a grenade he yelled "Mazel Tov!"
And I couldn't figure out if that was for the benefit of one of his comrades (who I'd assume was the "Jewish guy" - something led me to believe that the first time it happened), or, if Tobias himself was the "Jewish guy" in addition to being the guy from Brooklyn, or, being the guy from Brooklyn, he was also the comic relief and it was just something he yelled when he threw a grenade.
Runtime - most definitely! I was not planning on staying up till 3:00 am!
In
Aliens, I believe it was Hicks who was asleep when they "drop." (At one point the Sgt. says, "And somebody wake up Hicks!") I did find the scene in
Aliens, and found my memory is not exactly accurate - it's similar to the scene in
Objective, Burma! but hardly "frame by frame".
There was another similar scene with a drop-ship in
Starship Troopers where each soldier is shown to be reacting differently - one is puking, one is howling with delight, etc.