Re: Shocking War Admission From Colin Powell

milou <puce@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:2g08t1dm88u6c5rssgqek5cot6vao1q81v@
4ax.com:

> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:44:16 GMT, Tank Fixer
> <paul.deekat.carrier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>In article <43d35db6$0$29204$8fcfb975@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:26:00 +0100,
>> <Montesquiou> <Montesquiou> attempted to say .....
> <couic>
>>>
>>> The French Navy in the Ardennes ? It is a Hollywood vision !!!
>>
>>Maybe it would have been more effective than the French army
>>
>
> The Navy in the Ardennes, don't laugh ...
>
> See the Hollywood Battle of The Bulge, which re-located what should
> have been the dense Ardennes forests, in the desertic Sierra de
> Guadarrama mountain range in Spain!
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058947/locations
>
> As for the Ardennes tank battles, they were re-created at the US Army
> Yakima firing range along the east slope of the Cascade Range in
> Washington State. This region is roughly 2,500 to 3,500 ft. above sea
> level with an arid high desert climate. ... just like Belgium as
> Viroux will confirm!
>
> And for the trivia, this film was denounced by former President (and
> Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WW2) Dwight D. Eisenhower
> soon after its release in a press conference due to its glaring
> historical inaccuracies.
>
>

So whats your point ?
Do you propose that a major battle be accurately re-created in the Ardennes
itself ?
Obviously, any mainstream Hollywood movie for the masses attempting to
cover any major battle or series of battles is going to have its fair share
of "glaring historical inaccuracies".
Bridge over River Kwai, for instance, was even worse in that regards.
More recently, "We Were Soldiers", a film based on a book of the same name
written by the man that commanded during Americas first major battle in
Vietnam, was also highly innacurate.
There may be exceptions. I think "Tora,Tora,Tora" is regarded as being
fairly accurate.
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