Suggestions for good war movies

[seabolt]

Pretty lame though, "hey you four guys, lets attack that MG42! Now we could go around and come in behind them, but I am a school teacher turned captain and my field manual says a spread out frontal assault is the way to do it!"

I guess I'll just hammer this thread to death, but this scene did make more sense in the novelization of the original screenplay. It's hard to see in the movie, but the Rangers' line of advance is through a series of trenches. (Why the trenches are there is never explained.) The idea is that they will fan out in this excellent cover and play Whack-A-Mole until the German gunner is forced to change barrels. Then close and grenades.

The problem is that the German MG crew knows perfectly well that this is their "weak spot," so they posted an SMG man in position to enfilade the trenches. Scratch one medic.

As abbreviated in the film, it's all a big fatal muddle.

-- 30 --