About the history

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2001)

I have to agree, this is really good historical fiction, one note however... there were guys on the beach that had what looked like a Yen-yang on their shoulder and on the back of the helmet, which would be the 29th Infantry Division (a National Guard Unit), instead of either a diamond with a #2 (2nd Rangers, which we saw) or a #5 (which we didn't see). As far as I can find, only the 2nd and 5th Rangers were in the first wave of the assault, led by then LTC James Earl Rudder, and thus there should have been no 29th Inf, at least not in the first wave. A couple of really good books on the subject is "Rudder's Rangers : The True Story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion D-Day Combat Action" and "The Liberation of Pointe Du Hoc : The 2nd Rangers at Normandy, June 6-8, 1944" One thing that would probably suprise most people is that LTC Rudder came onshore with his men, and that his was one of the first transports to hit the beach, and that he lived through it. Of course, he was a Texas Aggie, that alone could be why his forces were able to succeed. Read the books, you'll never watch SPR the same way again.