Oh Graham, I had forgotten you were a toff pom.
nevermind. lol
apart from having no British or Commonwealth troops
Steve James wrote:apart from having no British or Commonwealth troops
Well, it was about E company of the 101st Airborne, iinm. But, fwiw, I don't recall seeing any Black troops either, and they were all over the place. Btw, that's why Spike Lee criticized both "SPR" and other recent WW2 movies. It didn't bother me (in BoB) because it was about a specific company, not about the "war." There were no French troops or even many Germans working for the Allies.
Wasn't it because Blacks still faced segregation in ww2 and fought in their own companies?
The Red Ball Express was an enormous convoy system created by Allied forces to supply their forward-area combat units moving through Europe following the breakout from the D-Day beaches in Normandy. The term "Red Ball" was a railroad phrase referring to express shipping. The system lasted only three months, from August 25 to November 16, 1944, when the port facilities at Antwerp, Belgium were opened. The term Red Ball is often used incorrectly to refer to all WWII European supply convoys by historians and the veterans themselves.
Steve James wrote:
But, I'm not criticizing "Ryan" or BoB. I liked them both. I was just commenting that the absence of British troops wasn't unusual. We could start another thread about this. There aren't m/any British films I've seen with Black troops during WW2. But, there were plenty of West Indians, even in the RAF. Ever seen one?
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