Did Upham really shoot Steamboat Willie?
His body doesn’t appear visible when Upham tells the other Germans to bug out. A: Yes, he shot him. The screen shot is so tight that you can only just make out Steamboat Willie’s boot. But Upham is looking down at the body. Besides, the script says he did. Q: Where is Pvt Jackson supposed to be from? A: Tennessee Q: How old is Captain Miller? A: Let’s apply some reverse engineering. He’s been in the Rangers since the North Africa campaign. That’s means he probably joined the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor. Let’s say he’s been in nearly three years. Then he said he taught high school for eleven years. He might have taught somewhere else before then, but let’s just leave his teaching career at eleven. He was probably no younger than 22 when he finished college. That makes him about 36 at the youngest. By way of contrast, James Gavin, who was the assistant division commander of the 82nd Airborne at Normandy, was a Lieutenant General at age 36. Q: Would Captain Miller have won the Medal o
