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Green Berets was a Vietnam film. (sorry film geek moment here).
WWII films... Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List are two more recently made films that I've really enjoyed but for the older films I'd list:
The Longest Day
Dambusters
Midway (stars all the big names - Fonda, Mitchum, Ford, Coburn, etc.)
Guns of Naverone (and even Force 10 from Naverone)
Kelly's Heroes
The Best Year's of Our Lives (technically post-WWII but excellent nonetheless as it deals with soldiers returning from war -- this is a must see for anyone)
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (steamy unrequited love between a shipwrecked Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum)
Battle of Midway
Captains of the Clouds (directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Jimmy Cagney - set in Canada before the US joined WWII - you can see real WWI flying ace Billy Bishop in a cameo - very cool footage of Ottawa during war)
The Pawnbroker (Rod Steiger as a holocaust survivor)
Casablanca (see the other threads devoted to the love of this film)
Sands of Iwo Jima
Tora, Tora, Tora
The Cruel Sea
To Be or Not to Be (funny)
From Here to Eternity
Bridge on the River Kwai
Stalag 17 (another great prisoner of war film)
Das Boot (best submarine film of all time)
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