Interesting war movie despite a few flaws

I generally like war movies of all categories and time periods. It's not necessary for me to see a lot of gore like in, Saving Private Ryan. I'm after the action story.

I'm only disappointed by anachronisms, the most common being incorrect weapons, equipment, wrong uniforms, incorrect insigna, the like. AMBUSH BAY's most obvious flaws are the use of Filipinos to play the roles of the Japanese soldiers. Granted, I'm sure that in 1966 it was somewhat difficult to find any number of Japanese people in the Philippines to play the parts of the enemy soldiers. But on second thought, there's a lot of Filipino citizens who are ethnic Chinese that could have been rounded up and hired. The other glaring flaw was the use of the early model M4 Sherman tank, no doubt a repaired and reconditioned WWII American tank left in the Philippines after the war. I can't figure out why the film couldn't obtain a real WWII Japanese tank. The Japanese Army occuppied the Philippines in force. There were hundreds of Japanese tanks in the Philippines during the war. I'm sure there had to have been a few usable ones kept as military souvenirs. Someone else wrote that the Marine uniforms used in the movie were actually American civilian hunter camou clothers patterned after the US Marines. If that's the case, it's okay by me. Glaring discrepanices are to be avoided.

Other than that, AMBUSH BAY looks to be a typical, Hollywood, medium budget WWII movie whose plot is a small-unit, dangerous, near-suicidal, long-range penetration mission. It's worth a watch. Out of four stars I give it two, which means, 'worth a look'.