American Howitzers

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Devil's Brigade

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milwaukee_rdb — 18 years ago(July 28, 2007 12:44 PM)

During the attack on Monte la Difensa there is a close up shot of German gunners manning an American M1 75mm Mountain Howitzer. While these were used by American troops in Italy, it's not likely the Germans would be using a captured one. This wasn't listed in the goofs section, so I thought I'd put it up here.

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roscoe-11 — 18 years ago(August 07, 2007 09:18 AM)

theres hundreds of goofs like that. the dress uniforms are wrong in every detail apart from shoulder cord and paratrooper boots (even the boots I'm pretty sure are black instead of the actual brown) I doubt the knives they used were v-42 knives, didnt see one johnson light machine gun etc

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milwaukee_rdb — 18 years ago(August 16, 2007 10:49 PM)

I'm sure there are lots of goofs. There always are in military movies. But this one stuck out to me as I'm a former Artilleryman myself.

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Orbtastic — 15 years ago(August 11, 2010 09:22 AM)

the tanks! they are Pattons I think, def not German and not WWII vintage.

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sawyertom — 15 years ago(August 13, 2010 10:29 AM)

You are correct,but the Germans were great at using other countries weapons. They loves our carbines and the Russian machine guns.

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jstang411 — 15 years ago(August 25, 2010 12:13 PM)

They loves our carbines
I don't know much about Russian machine guns, but didn't our carbines use a different caliber of ammo than theirs?

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IronBrig4 — 13 years ago(June 10, 2012 04:21 PM)

As most WW2 surplus disappeared by the late 60s, war movies and TV shows became notorious for using inaccurate gear and weapons. Panzers were actually Pattons with gray paint jobs, complete with M2 machine guns.