I suppose it could be the same...I always thought there was an armored column stopped on a bridge, and it was vulnerable to being strafed if any Luftwaffe aircraft appeared, and when the enraged Patton was driven to the point of the obstruction to see it was caused by two obstinate mules hooked to a cart that wouldn’t move, he pulled out one of his ivory handled pistols, shot the mules in the head, and directed his men to throw them over the side.
But I could clearly be remembering it wrong.
“But I could clearly be remembering it wrong.”
Probably nothing wrong with your memory. If the movie has that version it might be based on a similar incident or the same one with a little poetic license. Maybe they figured shoving some old farmer and his donkey off a bridge looked too harsh.
My dad mentioned the Luftwaffe threat for why the column didn’t slow down and hit him like a freight train. Not a game and they weren’t trying to be cruel.