Beach traps facing the wrong direction

>beach traps facing the wrong direction
What did Spielberg meant by this?

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They were preventing tanks from landing on the beaches no?

Why didn't they just bomb Hitler's house?

warcrime

no theyre correct you turbo retard

Hitler counteracted this by living in a Jewish orphanage. Allies couldn't touch him.

Hitler was actually known in the west as 'private Ryan' and they wanted to save him.

The log ramps are backwards, for those curious. Spielberg probably thought they were meant to impale boats or some other bs

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How could a mistake like this occur? Seems like they would have had a few military history autists on set to get details right.

It's as simple as "We need the soldiers to have something to take cover behind. Turn those logs around so it looks better on film".

If they put all that shit there, why not just land on a different beach?

why didn't they just wait for high tide?

Spielberg had WW2 vets from both sides as subject matter experts and just ignored them.

Nazis directed troops with whistles? That's too cute they can't do that!

Transphobic.

cause that's what germans would expect!

Why didn't they just fly the eagles to Berlin

Why didn't they just send an airborne assault with paratroopers the night before to disrupt enemy communications, rail lines and capture key artillery emplacement while maintaining a constant naval bombardment followed by an overwhelming infantry landing?

The British actually decided against trying to assassinate Hitler because they felt he was making such poor decisions in the late war that it was better to leave him alive

>2 metre difference at high tide
the entire thing is made up isnt it

Wouldn't it be more effective facing the boats to impale them?

They did. The allies landed on multiple beaches that day

people are cheaper than planes.

yeah and they didn't have those huge ass bunkers at the beach either

What're you gonna do, call the warpolice and arrest the president?

Only after we win and need an excuse to dispose of the enemy leadership.

Why didn't they just tell the nazis they were being problematic and #cancel the war?

They did.

reminder they hired a bunch of reenactors to play the germans soldiers and when they showed up spielberg instructed them all to have their heads

This, they feared someone militarily competent would be put in charge.

*shave

Berlin's not in France, dummy

>KILL THAT WHITE TRASH!!
>FOR ISRAEL!!!!

>spielberg instructed them all to have their heads
What did he mean by this?

Spielberg took their heads as a sacrifice to yahweh

Umm they were playing literal nazis, why wouldn't they have shaved heads?

They were playing Wehrmacht

germans had the longest hair on average of any army in WW2

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If they had better grooming standards they wouldn't have lost

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Because skinheads were invented in the 1960s.

why would the army care that some old woman might lose all of her sons?
it's literally the biggest war in history, shit happens

That area has some of the highest tides in the entire world

nobody couldve turned this ship around, germany was already losing in 1941

>frfr the third reich be bussin no cap

The bay of fundy has 12m tides

Yeah but they could've stretched out the war for a year or two longer, costing drastically more lives and possibly creating better terms of surrender for Germany. There are several scenarios that could've had a better outcome for Germany had some fundamental changes and tweaks to strategy were made early enough in the end stage of the war.

Because that's what the entire west coast of Europe looked like. That's why it was called the Atlantic Wall

boats would hit the underwater obstacles

I don't get war, you just go there and you die like how are you meant to live its impossible you're most likely going to die in a war and then that's it. It's almost certain death so its strange that people just do this shit

did anyone else find it a bit jarring when they all yelled "for drag queen story hour" right before the ramps dropped?

Probably some protocol left over from the Civil War Era where they'd need the last surviving kid to help till the family farm

Hitler could have surrendered on June 7th and gotten better conditions

It happened in real life.
Its amazing PR.

casablanca conference happened in early 1943 where the allies, including soviets, decided that they would only accept unconditional surrender from germany. no amount of casualties wouldve changed that. the soviets already lost 9 million soldiers, they didnt give a shit

>you're most likely going to die
not even remotely true for pretty much all wars
although it probably did make more sense back in the day where you could make off with 5 slaves and a sack of gold after sacking a city

Boats would just bump against them and turn away. The idea was to have boats ride up the ramps and capsize, or hit mines laced up and down the logs for maximum damage

>amazing PR
>hey we drafted all the sons of this poor family, they all got killed but we brought one back, no hard feelings, right?

How not? What about all the people getting gunned down around you, you will most likely join them you're no different than them. If I got drafted I would just assume I was gonna die.

Theres already thousands of Russians dead in Ukraine, how many thought they would survive?

I've listened to some of the effects artists on this movie talk about putting together and compositing the shots, and part of it is probably misunderstanding basic improvised war "tech", but the other part is literally just making stuff up to look more "cinematic" or make the shot cooler.

In fact, have you guys ever watched Time Team? It's a show where some archaeologists go around England digging up potential old ruins and such. And there's one episode where they're literally just unearthing a dirt-covered poured concrete bunker from WW2. It's the most basic, no-frills structure possible and yet these dudes are flipping out carefully excavating dirt from a metal tube stuck in the ground and wondering what it could possibly be. An air pipe for a lower tunnel? A mortar tube? They have no fucking idea. Bro it's just a metal bit they put in the ground so posts and stakes can be set up easily.

My point is, a lot of people see old stuff and it's just simple, utilitarian things that militaries improvised on the spot, but they spend years analyzing them down to the finest detail trying to find the what and the why, but they never actually learn anything because they're so convinced every little thing has some big meaning or design behind it.

in modern war, for every 1 soldier shooting a rifle, there are 4 more behind him taking care of logistics, communication, maintenance, construction, administrative and other work.
the odds to get killed are still very low for the average soldier. also, pearl harbour filled people with a patriotic duty to defend their country

>Entire west coast
Only the beaches, most of it is cliffs and shit

If you look at total active personnel vs mortalities I don't think there's very many examples where the latter is more than half of the former.
Time-wise, combat like that scene is a tiny part of war. The vast majority is sitting around waiting for something to happen and trudging through fields and shit.