Great Movie with Plot Holes

Rating: 7/10 (30 January 2020)

OK loved the movie, but couldn't forget the incongruities.
0) Couldn't stop thinking 'Saving Private Ryan'
1) Why does an aeroplane not drop a message to the front-line troops?
2) The soldiers don't behave/speak like they would have in 1917
3) Why are just two soldiers sent?
4) I Don't believe a pilot would stab his rescuer? ( I don't know if we were meant to understand that he had gone mad with pain)
5) That German sniper was a terrible shot.
6) Surreal bits in the open countryside. British troops wandering around
7) That raging river
The best way to understand this movie is that it was based on the memories of Sam Mendes grandfather. So you have a set of different scenarios that his grandfather experienced during his war patched together into a 24 hour sequence.