The Devil's Brigade

[Peter Clare]

Found this interesting

Devil's Brigade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Interesting that they were actually known as "The Black Devils".

A few more little snippets about the movie:

• Anachronisms: Postwar national boundaries on the wall map.
• Anachronisms: The leather gear used by the Brigade in the film (boots, pistol holsters, etc.) is black; black leather gear wasn't adopted by the US Army until the late 1950s.
• Anachronisms: The Canadian flag shown in the ceremony near the end of the film wasn't adopted until 1964. At the time depicted in the movie, Canada still used a "modified Union Jack" type of flag called the Red Ensign.

• Anachronisms: All of the American officers, when wearing neckties are wearing Army Green neckties. They should be wearing khaki ties. Army Green did not come along until well after WW II. The enlisted men are all wearing the proper ties.
• Factual errors: Although the crossed-arrows insignia worn in the film by the First Special Service Force were fact, the red berets were pure fiction. All members of the Force eventually wore U.S. Army dress uniforms with U.S. paratrooper boots and distinctive red,white, and blue braided shoulder loops, overseas cap piping, and parachute wing backings.

[Slipdigit]

It irritates me that they changed the history of unit around so. The US contingent wasn't the conglomeration of malcontents, jail-birds and thugs as were protrayed in the movie.

The movie was fun to watch though, even the highly fictitious scene showing the capturing of the Italian town when the German commander is getting his bath and dresses in his uniform.