You are entitled to your opinion in contrast to those who were documented and lived events at the time.
As an FYI: The character Red Buttons well-played was a real participant- Pvt. John F. Steele 505th PIR 82nd Airborne.
From Army.mil: “Pvt. John Steele of F Company, 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Steele was already a combat veteran, with combat jumps into Italy and Sicily under his belt prior to D-Day.
During his landing, Steele’s parachute became caught in the steeple of the church in the middle of the town square. Shot through the foot, Steele hung there for two hours pretending to be dead before the Germans noticed him and cut him down.
“There were some paratroopers who landed nearby, but they didn’t help him because they thought he was dead. The Germans thought he was dead also, but they wanted whatever papers he had on him and that is when they discovered that he was alive,” said Patrick Bunel, a curator at the Airborne Museum here (St. Mere Eglise).
The German soldiers took him prisoner, but Steele was able to escape once tanks that had landed at Utah beach arrived....Steele was awarded the Bronze Star for valor and the Purple Heart for his actions during the invasion.
Today a uniformed mannequin hangs from a parachute and rigging on the steeple, in honor of Steele (who actually landed in back of the church), his fateful jump and the liberation of the town below.........Steele regularly visited here before his death in 1969 from cancer.”