10-03-2006, 04:16 PM
There is one rather brutal scene that I know is based on fact, and I'm sure our American vets witnessed this too...a German tank stopping on top of a foxhole, locking the brake on one side, causing the tank to pivot in place...grinding the man underneath to shreds . I've seen this in several movies and know it was commonplace on the Eastern front for both German and Russian tankers to do......there was no love lost here!
DD
PS- In all fairness, I should mention that if the tankers did not do this, the man in the foxhole would normally attempt to place a magnetic mine (or a grenade) on the tank as soon as it passed over!. Things that appear gruesome to us are sometimes just a matter of survival on the battlefield...