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Fury - well done and worth seeing
I saw it twice, and thought it was very well done. For context, I am a USAF Viet Nam era vet, not army, so I have no experience with tanks. I did read Belton Cooper's memoir "Death Traps," about the Shermans.
In reference to the clerk-typist cliche, that rang true. My late father-in-law, an insurance agent, was drafted in WWII at age 34. His discharge paper listed him as a clerk-typist. He served in the 45th division, 157th regiment. When he was in a nursing home, I sent to the Army for his decorations. They arrived after he died and included a bronze star and a combat infantryman's badge. That must have been some typewriter. During some battles, everyone got swept up and carried a rifle.
He rarely spoke of the war but once did mention his hatred of the Waffen SS. He also mentioned living in a foxhole during the winter, being mortared and shelled by 88's. So the fatigue and hatred of the Nazi's shown by the troops in Fury also rang true. First concentration camps were overrun n November 1944, so troops were aware of the horrors and the role of the SS.
The level of detail was exceptional. Red tracers for the US and green tracers for the Germans. Pitt's character carried a beat-up S&W 1917 .45. The grips had been replaced with plexiglas and had a photo of a pinup or girlfriend under them. That was common. US Army Air Corps mechanics would take broken aircraft windshields (there were plenty), manufacture custom grips from them, and sell or trade them to the GI's. I saw some made for captured Lugers.
I just finished reading Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson's The Guns at Last Light, third in his WWII trilogy. If you have not read it and are a WWII buff, I highly recommend the trilogy.
I saw it twice, and thought it was very well done. For context, I am a USAF Viet Nam era vet, not army, so I have no experience with tanks. I did read Belton Cooper's memoir "Death Traps," about the Shermans.
In reference to the clerk-typist cliche, that rang true. My late father-in-law, an insurance agent, was drafted in WWII at age 34. His discharge paper listed him as a clerk-typist. He served in the 45th division, 157th regiment. When he was in a nursing home, I sent to the Army for his decorations. They arrived after he died and included a bronze star and a combat infantryman's badge. That must have been some typewriter. During some battles, everyone got swept up and carried a rifle.
He rarely spoke of the war but once did mention his hatred of the Waffen SS. He also mentioned living in a foxhole during the winter, being mortared and shelled by 88's. So the fatigue and hatred of the Nazi's shown by the troops in Fury also rang true. First concentration camps were overrun n November 1944, so troops were aware of the horrors and the role of the SS.
The level of detail was exceptional. Red tracers for the US and green tracers for the Germans. Pitt's character carried a beat-up S&W 1917 .45. The grips had been replaced with plexiglas and had a photo of a pinup or girlfriend under them. That was common. US Army Air Corps mechanics would take broken aircraft windshields (there were plenty), manufacture custom grips from them, and sell or trade them to the GI's. I saw some made for captured Lugers.
I just finished reading Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson's The Guns at Last Light, third in his WWII trilogy. If you have not read it and are a WWII buff, I highly recommend the trilogy.
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