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No, I'd like to see both the Eastwood films, but don't get all that much time to watch movies. But no matter what perspective that film is from, this does not alter the perception that US films tend to glorify the US effort at the expense of others.

>Have you seen Letters from Iwo Jima? It's the Japanese perspective, not the allies.
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>>Well go and tell that to Dragan then. I've just read a message from him to you that says the same, and the mention of Eddy Izzard's lampoon. Anyway, I was just pointing out a fact - what the films suggest. And why mention the Iwo Jima films? They defo only feature US allies :-)
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>>>That's just silly Terry. Those movies focus on certain perspectives and certain fronts, but they don't even cover all Americans fighting, let alone the allies. Sheesh, look at letters from iwo jima just as a start, or For Those We Love (a rewrite of history) or Tokyo Trial. I can't believe I'm even responding to this. There are too many movies out there that show otherwise and too many foreign films as well. I'm sorry you haven't seen them or don't have access to them. I've seen plenty of movies that focus on the allies or even the enemies view points and I never assumed that everyone in those countries assumed that they were the only ones who mattered... what's up with that? I guess it shouldn't be surprising considering that when America bombed Bucharest the movies were packed with locals watching American movies.
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>>>>>Reality check. All Americans (of the U.S. variety) do NOT think America did it singlehandedly. I certainly hope that all Europeans don't think we Americans think we did either.
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>>>>The films suggest that you do. And series like Band of Brothers: the only Brit featured was a "job's worth" in a tank who refused to blow up a church for them. That U-Boat-Enigma Code film had a US team capturing the U-boat and the machine.
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>>>>BTW I seem to recall that after the war they found an enigma machine in a museum where it had been donated by a visisting German dignitary before the war HA HA!
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>>>>>:o)
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>>>>>>>Your tiny little inconsequential country would still be speaking German if the US had not
>>>>>>>sailed across the pond to defend it. Maybe you should take a trip to Margraten and pay some
>>>>>>>respect to the 8,301 U.S. military dead interred there who died so YOU could have the
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>>>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Day_(The_Netherlands)
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>>>>>>When will you finally stop thinking you did it all singlehanded.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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