I'll reword it. I didn't accept a point of view that they were just like us.
I don't think that's the point of view the film put across. The relationship of those soldiers to their Officers and to their job was copmletely different from the way it's depicted in American war films about Americans.
Any such point of view would definitely be wrong.
Personally, I didn't pick up that sense of "just like us." But I do think it's true that their better features were stressed -- in most, though not all, major characters.
My father who fought in France after D-Day spoke with
disgust of GI`s shooting Germans wanting to surrender.
War is hell.
The Japanese were systematic at being barbaric killers