Why Battle of the Bulge Drew Criticism from Eisenhower and Historians - #shorts #short

[clevlandblock]

The Ardennes Offensive as reimagined by the folks who brought us "Looney Tunes". Sad, because only a couple of years earlier, "The Longest Day" set a new standard for depicting a huge scale WW2 battle.

[lukacosic]

Imagine the president having a press conference just to roast your film

[BjarneLinetsky]

My dad was a veteran of the Bulge; from what he told me, it was mostly about German shock troops and the winter....Americans were not outfitted for the cold and spent day after day in subzero weather without proper food. this part of the Bulge was not covered in the movie.

[TNCelt]

My uncle was in the 508th Regiment of the 82nd Airborne in the Ardennes during the bulge. I distinctly remember watching this movie with him and him laughing wildly while drinking martinis.

[ryanvictoria]

You forgot to mention that the Ardennes forest in winter was smack in the middle of a desert for the final tank battles in the movie.😄

[kilroy]

Was also criticized by my father, who was there. That movie is terrible, yet 80 years later we're still waiting for a good movie about one of the largest battles the US ever fought in.

[charlessaint]

Production, "How come we can't get REAL Tigers?"
Grandpa, "Because I was too good with a Bazooka!"

[dannyzero]

I remember a Midway veteran watching the movie Pearl Harbor and complaining why didn’t they use Japanese carriers for the launch sequence. Someone told the vets that they sunk all the Japanese carriers.

[justinlabrosse]

Imagine making a movie about a battle that your president took part in and got so inaccurate your own nations leader makes a public press conference just to shit talk your film 😂 thats wild

[stevee]

I don't mind some minor changes for entertainment purposes, but they swapped winter woods of France and Germany for treeless Spanish plains. The ending scene of this movie is an absolute embarrassment, like filming a movie about the battle of Gettysburg at the north pole.

[colinbarron]

The film was made in Spain. M47 tanks were used to portray King Tigers. At the time the film was made the Spanish Army had 20 Panzer IV tanks which could have been used in the movie but were not.

[clf]

My grandfather was at that battle and he never spoke about it except for one time I visited them in Kentucky and walk to the mailbox with them and he said I seen things that nobody should ever see❤👩‍🌾🙏

[ghostwithmp-]

I love that Germans are using cold war M47 which is US btw

[thomashogan]

Because very few Tiger I and II tanks were built and most were destroyed in combat or scuttled by their crews, it was common to use the US Army surplus of M-47 or M-48 Patton tanks to fill in the gaps in the 50's -70's war movies and TV shows. Eisenhower should have just been happy they didn't blame him for being caught flat footed while 250, 000 German Troops with heavy tanks built up on his front while he had many of his officers on Christmas vacation. The soldiers at the time were none to happy with Eisenhower Christmas of '44.

[PegasusB]

Due to a typing error, the battle was filmed in a sand covered landscape, not a snow covered landscape.

[aewhatever]

Eisenhower didn't fund the film either . They had to use what tanks were cheapest and available. Most German armor was either sitting on a shooting range or sold for scrap

[davidcantwell]

Rewriting history, it's what Hollywood does best.

[fredman]

Still a great movie.

The best line is when Henry Fonda’s character was asked if the Germans made any mistake, and he calmly replies “Well, they made me mad”.

Perfect.

[thecincinnatikid]

Outside of Pearl Harbor the most inaccurate war movie ever. For the most realistic movie on the Battle of the Bulge watch the movie Battleground

[JakvsMetalheads]

When a comedy movie like Kelly’s Heroes makes a real effort at convincingly dressing up a T-34 as a Tiger, this movie has no real excuse