Re: Anyone notice anything funny in this pic?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Duckysattva</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sandwarrior</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I know I'm late to the party, but just reiterating the "<span style="text-decoration: underline">Saving Private Ryan</span>" scenes where the scope goes from a Weaver 330C to a Lyman or Unertl Target and back again. Then the quick releases so the turd Upham can watch the battle. Maybe Jackson carried both?
What killed me was the "clicks" on the parallax ring, right after Caparzo got hit. That WAS pathetic.
I still think a ton of the movie, but DAMN IT, I hate when they get stuff like that completely wrong.
What can I say, there was aviation stuff in there that set me off a little as well. Too good of a movie to have stupid things like that ruin it. </div></div>
By aviation stuff, do you mean the fact that in the movie they had P-51 Mustangs busting tanks as they were pushing through tight streets in a tiny french village? I'm no military historian but I've always been a huge fan of the late model P-51s and to my knowledge they were mostly relegated to high-altitude, high-speed fighter and bomber escort roles. I believe I read something once about the RAF buying the early P-51s (A/B model) and using them for ground attack very early in the war but I don't recall ever reading anything about a "P-51 Tank Buster", especially not in service in 1944. Still an amazing movie though.</div></div>
That was pretty much it. At that time, the RAF had just gotten their Typhoons worked out to be excellent ground attack aircraft. They were nicknamed 'tank busters' by guys on the ground, but not officially. This movie takes place during and between D-Day/The Breakout. It was about that time the USAAF figured out the P-47 was about the baddest bitch in the land as far as ground attack. It was stable, easy to fly, could pack four times what any other fighter could carry, and of course the eight fifties up front did their share of damage. It would have been nice to see one of them, or a P-38. Considering how important the bridge was I would have expected to see anything.
The glider story was actually true. Someone put steel plating in the floor of the glider and that made the CG and trim ineffective. It crashed killing a one-star general, BG Don Pratt.