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Old February 17th, 2009, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by clueless_newbie View Post
Well, okay, here goes:

In the war movies concerning the Battle of the Bulge (e.g. Band of Brothers), we are always treated to these heroic American infantry holding off the German panzers.

Now, I know they're just movies, but I'm confused. The Americans seem to be armed with small arms, some grenades, and maybe a machine gun or two. And they're always "critically low on ammunition."
Many of those are old movie cliche´s, I think.

I am personally always amused to see the hospital series where somebody measures the blood pressure just once and says " 120/50 and falling...."

Not wanting to make any jokes about the veterans, just the old movies where heroes just swing from the trees...
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