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“The Americans played no part in the escape.”
Pal, the only reason ANY of you ‘escaped’ was due to America’s involvement. And by the way, we made the movie, so we’ll put Steve McQueen in there if we feel like it, and you can deal with it. You would have long since been dead in a Hitler camp.
But the Brits did such a great job escaping Hitler during the invasion of France.
“The Americans played no part in the escape. To have Americans riding motorbikes was ridiculous.”Bite me Limey.
ps bitter brit: Monty was a vacillating moron. His stupidity caused the war to last months longer than necessary. And is solely responsible for ten of thousands of American deaths.He was the worst Commanding General in all of history. So .. suck on that!
If he was there and said the Americans played no part in the escape, so be it. I don't think he's denigrating America's part in the overall war, just this escape and Hollywood's portrayal.
Similar to John Wayne's larger-than-life characters and actions in WWII movies. It's Hollywood, it's entertainment.
But Garner and McQueen were added for the benefit of American audiences...
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This is odd.
When the movie was being made the real pow’s were SPECIFICALLY consulted on the fact that the americans who worked on digging the tunnel were transfered a week or so before the escape.
This “outrage” is a bit of yellow journalism fakery since the fact the americans were never part of the escape has never been a big secret.
Wow, some of you folks have flipped out. All the guy said was that there weren’t any Americans involved in the escape, and there was no motorcycle riding. He’s an eye witness. Let’s just take it at face value.
By introducing American movie stars such as McQueen and James Garner, they pulled in an American audience. It was Hollywood making a buck.
Nothing bad is implied about the American military personnel who fought in the war. It doesn’t seem appropriate to bash Great Britain, who have been one of our closest allies through the years.
I dated a girl whose father, an American pilot, was in that POW camp. He told me that he did not know — and he doubted any other Americans in the camp knew — about the escape until after it had gone down. He said that there were always rumors and whisperings of plots for escape, but that was normal. As for the escape that was the subject of the movie, he said that was a British gig.