SUPERB BRITISH WAR FILM ? HAS ANY ONE EVER SEEN THIS ????

[Mike Jackson]

Originally Posted by Postwarden

Great film indeed although I'm not sure that the Guards Armoured Division ever used Shermans. Happy to be corrected.

Hate to disagree with Mike but the armoured car driver is Cpl 'Smoke' O'Connor. The joke - commented on earlier in the film - is that he is an Irishman serving in the Welsh Guards.

Nice to see a film where the actors really look like soldiers and are wearing properly-fitted uniforms.

Jon

Shermans equipped most of the battalions in the GAD _ an exception being 2 WG which as Div Armd Recce Regt had Cromwells. So the film is partially right - and a bit wrong. Apologies to Cpl O'Connor for mistaking him for a Welshman. The actor Michael Trubshawe ("Bushey") actually served in the HLI. Mike