movie 'FURY' with Brad Pitt

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After waiting awhile to see what others would have to remark about the movie I felt it time to add a few of my own observations. Besides what has already been said which I mostly agree with agree I first must say that I realize that this movie was not meant to be representative of any actual event but the 2 glaring moments that I find hard to accept where:
1) when the tank crew were in the apartment with the two German women a Black American Infantryman came to tell them that they needed to get back and report. I know that Black Americans did serve in a number of different combat units, especially an armored unit and the Tuskegee air wing but as far as I know there were no Black American infantry units and the US Army had not integrated yet.
2) Who would plant ONE mine in a crossroad, especially near where a first aid station was stationed.
Oh well as I said previously I know this was not supposed to be an accurate movie so I guess one must accept the producers discretion.

This has just been my two cents.

On black US infantry, there were a growing number on the front lines near the end of the war, as the US Army, due to casualties, relaxed its racial policies in practice (if not in letter) during the periodic "comb-outs" for badly needed replacement infantry. There were also numbers of black combat engineer and supply units who served near the front and this guy could have been from one of them.

Here is a link from the National WW2 Museum:

http://www.nationalww2museum.org/assets/...-world.pdf

The US Army in WW2 was more multi-ethnic than early Hollywood movies made it seem. For example, in the WW2 Movie "Hell to Eternity" which was based on the real-life exploits of Guy Gabaldon, a Mexican American from Los Angeles, the part is played by a non-Hispanic actor Jeffrey Hunter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_to_Eternity