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In Saving Private Ryan they land on normandy with boats that open from the front and everyone pours out. Did the people in the front not know they would most likely be shot instantly? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Field Marshall Haigh would've loved Stalingrad to show how it's properly done - His ghost found the casualty rate laughably low.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

"Field Marshal Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches close to Berlin."
-Edmund Blackadder