Originally Posted by cmort666

There's your answer there.

Do you watch a "Flash Gordon" serial and wonder if that's how NASA does things?

Do you watch "Beach Red" and wonder why the Marines in the Pacific had M-47s, but the Army in Europe, faced with Panthers and Tigers had to make do with Shermans?

Do you watch "100 Rifles" and wonder if John Garand made up a special run of M1s for the Mexican Army around 1910?

The movies are make believe and whatever's in the script is whatever happens. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental. Usually, it's purely accidental.