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Old 03-September-2007, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by 3rdvogon View Post
That was in Kelly's Heroes - It was released not long after Battle of the Bulge - At the time I saw KH I thought it strange that what was an action comedy would take the touble to create a reasonable mock-up of a Tiger but in B of the B (a supposed re-telling of a historical event) they never even bothered - mind you there was so much else wrong with B of the B it hardly surprised me that the AFVs were all wrong (even the US Army was not using Shermans and you would have thought they could have found some of those).
When you want to film a historical tank battle using alarge number of real tanks you have limited choicews. Where wouldthey get more than a handful of Shermans? Wherte would they get any German tanks at all? OK the Syrians had a lot of PZ IVs and the Israelis had a load of Shermans up until the 70s but I bet they wouldn't stage a Mock Battle for you lol.
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