So....where were the English?
I never heard a single English accent in the whole film, surely they must have ran into some seeing as we had a massive part in the war and advancing through Germany.
shareI have it on good authority there were no British soldaten in the US 2nd Armored Division; I also have it on Good Authority that the British were on another part of the front.
Lastly, I've heard rumors that Britain has a pretty substantial movie industry of it's own...
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I'm Canadian and we get even less representation in films as to the Canadian contribution to the war but I agree with nickm2. The Brits (and Canadians) would have been in a different area of fighting.
shareAnd that's a shame that Canadian film/TV don't hightlight Canada's contributions in WW2-Naval, Aviation & Tank/Infantry.
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Especially considering the government subsidies the Canadian film industry gets.
shareCanada seems to make almost no war movies, even compared to another comparable modest-sized film industry like Australia's..
maybe it is political...loony-left ideology seems especially prevalent in Canada...maybe they are all making love not war, or afraid that war movies are insulting some fking minority or something...I mean, it's bad for that here and in states even, but Canada seems possibly loopiest left of them all.
Lordy, I hope not! Anyway, I've seen a few outstanding Aussie war movies (though they sometimes seem to be 'on the cheap') like 'Odd Angry Shot (one of my favorite Vietnam movies)', an early Mel Gibson in Special Force Z(I think) and of course Gallipoli & the Light Horsemen.
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Actually, as an American, I have a great respect for the Canadian armed forces.
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Actually, as an American, I have a great respect for the Canadian armed forces.
So do I. I lived in Canada for a couple of years in the late 1960s as a pre-teen. Then in the mid-1990s when I was an officer in the New Jersey Army National Guard, I got to do one two-week active duty period in a joint exercise at Fort Drum, New York which (is on the Canadian border) in which a platoon of Canadian Militia, mostly from the Royal Montreal Regiment, and the scout platoon of the Mechanized Infantry battalion I was assigned to merged to become the Opposition Force against the rest of the battalion under my operational control. The Canadians were some bad-assed troops; I have to say, with no exaggeration, that their arrival and merger with the scouts was almost straight out of The Devil's Brigade (1968). The Canadians got off their bus, fell in line in full combat gear and marched smartly into our bivouac area while most of our scouts were sitting around in just T-shirts and trousers. The only thing missing, since they were militia, was that their bagpiper couldn't get off work in his civilian job to make it to this exercise, otherwise I'm sure he would have been there blaring Scotland the Brave as they marched in, just like the movie. And let's just say (not to take anything away from our battalion scouts) that they were even more impressive tactically. Oddly enough, almost none of the troops involved, either Canadian or American, had ever heard of the Devil's Brigade, let alone the movie that was made about them. People just don't study the classics enough!
Looking back on the couple of years of my childhood I spent in Canada, during the Vietnam era when Americans came across the border to avoid the draft and were welcomed with open arms, and what I've observed from visits there (and I have a number of relatives who still live in Canada), I came to the conclusion that the Canadian Forces have to be bad-assed to overcompensate for the generally liberal and pacifistic leanings of the rest of the country, and are probably at least just as unappreciated by their civilian population as American troops are today. As I alluded to in my earlier post on this thread, it speaks volumes that Canada has such a heavily government-subsidized film industry, and yet I can't think of any major Canadian-made film about its armed forces. share
Well the Canadian contribution in terms of man power of 1 million is overshadowed by the US with 16.1 million. So naturally, the Canadians are not going to have a big representation.
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that is possibly a distorted proportion when you re-graph it to show active combat soldiers...US forces even then and in Vietnam, had an incredibly long tail..
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as on D-day...different beaches.
Great example, I think personally..