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That was really interesting. Doctrine may not be popular with historians and RUclipsrs, but it is fascinating for viewers.

I have never seen a young James Coburn. Or maybe I did, but I just didn't recognize him.

Its just a weird film in general. I like it but its not well shot.

1:13 a combat infantry badge two (!) tanks destroyed and a(real) Cross of Iron 😲!! I don't know what the other medal is tho!

I love finding a creator who is setting a new bar for quality. This video is immersively detailed, focused, direct, and feels easy to follow despite being highly technical. Please make many more videos like this, I'll watch them all

Complete nonsense. The Germans didn’t do that and the Brits are well known for writing what we now call fake news.

Himmler in the Eagle Has Landed: "Interesting man, this Steiner.."

Looks and feels like a docudrama, very cool👌

Leafs stopping Germs from growing.

excellent analysis

Coburn was fantastic 👏

I've seen the movie at least a dozen times...one of my favorites...and I've always thought Coburn sold it. Peckinpah was one of the best directors ever.

Coburn was great. Far more jarring were the 1970s haircuts, but a lot of war movies back then have the same issue.

WW 2 was rhe grearest conflict in human history, and the Eastern Fronf the greatest and bloodiest theatre of that conflict but because it was largely fought between Germans & Russians it is woefully under represented in Hollywood. The Western Theatre of WW 2 was won or lost in Russia. I've seem Pekinpahs C of I a few times and really like it as I think it is a fair representation of the carnage of that conflict. James Cohborn irrespective of his age gave a great performance, a film well woth watching.

Yes, James Coburn was horribly miscast as Fw Steiner. But it's a tribute to his abilities that he did the job well enough that so many of us warheads liked it. While his language and American accent didn't do the role any favors, his craggy weathered features and the way he carried himself in the role really did nail the 'tired old soldier' aesthetic. This is pretty amazing since Coburg's own military experience was two years as a draftee in 1950. And even THAT experience was in special services... he was a DJ for an AFN station and a narrator for training films! Not much grunt experience at all. Coburn did so well at the role of Steiner that he out-acted Richard Burton in the really awful sequel, 1979's 'Sgt. Steiner' [also called 'Breakthrough']. Fun fact about Breakthrough, btw... it was Christoph 'Hans Landa' Waltz' first film!

I thought he portrayed the role very nicely. If you're looking for a real mis-casting, check out Richard Burton in the role of Steiner in the second instalment. That film is as close to unwatchable as it gets, and Burton is absolutely hopeless as Steiner, totally unconvincing.

Skorzeny NEVER operated behind Allied lines himself and so it is unlikely he ever even put on an Allied inform. He sent other poor sods to take those risks.

The Italian journalist and author Curzio Malaparte also claimed that Soviet machine gunners were chained to their guns in 1941.

Another hollywood flick propping up the western front way out of proportion to its actual contribution?

AI is cancer.

great video !

Universal conscription translates to a reserve army with men (and women) of all ages serving. NCOs in their 40s, 50s and then some were a regular sight in the Wehrmacht - even before the Volksturm and all that jazz. Just like they are now in the IDF, FDF and other militaries where everyone gets to/has to serve.

Do anything that describes RUclips to a t reality light history light truth light

Cross of iron at the time reminded me of the Sven Hassel books i had read. I never thought about Coburns age. But then i thought this movie was more 1944 than 42 with Germany on the back foot. A great film with a great cast, and very un Hollywood.

Just comparing the protagonists age tells nothing. You age quickly in war. I have photos of a relative from early and late war - you won't believe it's the same man.

He was fine. Richard Burton in the sequel was miscast. It wasn't his age.

That's completly bullshit. The straps shown were for transport the guns when changing the position. not to chain the soldiers to the guns... That makes no sense especialy when the gunner was hit/killed and the dead body wouldn't allow another gunner to takeover the now unmaned gun, very big mistake...

I always his hair was a bit too long.

And next ..."Hun's bayonetting babies and nuns" ...and other 1915 myths !

Keep it real...and authentic, even if not always dramatic.

Seen this film many times and never considered Coburns casting or age an issue.

the amazing thing about AI is that one day it will implode through all the backfed AI data

HLI BABY!

lol, 1914 misinformation popping back in 2024.

My grandfather was in France he told me about a chained machine gunner. Every man that went passed him put his bayonet into him. He said there wasn’t much left.

Looking at pics of combat soldiers they always look 10yrs older than they are.

My favorite War film with one of my favorite actors. Exceptional performance I thought, and as you say, makes the characters age easy to forget about.

Having said that a lot of older men were called into the ranks due to man-power shortages as the war went on. His role though is of someone who has been in the army and fighting for many years.

British and Canadian Officers in WWII had lanyards for their pistols....'chained to their guns' indeed.

Yes Coburn is the wrong age but it is a terrific film and he is very good in it.

The apocryphal quote about not having doctrine refers to the Americans, and doesn't claim that they don't have any, it says they don't follow it. "One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine"

rewriting of history

We are going to have to only watch RUclips from 2023 and earlier. Everything else will be ai

My source is "I said so"

For the same reason anti retreat squads exist.

How could a machine gunner that is required to know how to disassemble his machine gun possibly be chained to it?

The myth of soldiers chaine to wathever goes around since ancient Times. And is disregarded as complete BS by everyone who thinks about the impracticality of it.

A superb war movie. I think Coburn is far better as Sgt Steiner than Richard Burton. Coburn is convincing as a cynical, grouchy and down-to- Earth war veteran. I served under ' iron balls' Sgts like him - not always likeable but always worthy of respect for their operational experience. Think of tough platoon leaders in movies and TV, John Wayne comes to mind as Marine Sgt. Striker in The Sands of Iwo Jima and Vic Morrow as Sgt. Saunders in the Combat TV series.

Unless they play a histical character(and even then I'm still lenient), I don't really care about the actors' age if they're good in the role.