Anyone notice the issue of Playboy?

Yes, I noticed that even without pausing the movie. This is a big goof in the film, considering "Playboy" didn't even come out until after the war! I wonder what thoughts were going through his head during then...

I have no doubt you are correct wally, without even having to look. There are so many disappointing, sloppy anachronisms in this appallingly bad war film that a small detail like the Playboy pales in comparison to the rest of the embarrassing howlers that caused World War II vets of the real battle of the Ardennes to get up and head for the exits before the third reel.

My father was thrown into action with an airborne division that came up to break the siege of Bastogne. He participated in over 30 days of combat that followed as the 3rd Army chased the Germans back to Germany. To him, this movie must have been made as a burlesque, a farce. Because it certainly was absolutely nothing at all like what he experienced.

I've walked the woods and fields around Bastogne and I've seen the remains of battle, still evident after six decades. The Spanish plains is so different from Belgium that they might as well have saved even more money and shot the flick in Mexico, on a beach. It's nothing like the rolling fields and thick pine woods of the Ardennes. The film makers spent all their money on casting big name movie stars and scrimped on almost everything else.

Rather than a tribute, this film was an insult to the men who fought and died in Belgium.

For that matter, is that a copy of "Inherit the Wind" (first performed in 1955) sitting on Gen. Grey's desk, next to the picture of Hessler?