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Just how big

posted 9 years ago by Governor_Frontbottom2
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was that German single bomb meant to be?
I think the director might have exaggerated the carrying capacity of Luftwaffe bombers.

[–] MarcusBritish 7 years ago

Nope. It was spot-on. They used an SC 1800B "Satan" bomb. And it was not even the biggest payload available. It would probably have been dropped by a Heinkel He 111 E-1 or higher variant which could handle 2,000kg payloads and more in later variants. No exaggeration. Needless to say I find it an excellent scene – never seen a bomb like that being deployed in any other war film.

http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_SC_1800_Satan.html
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/sc1800.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_111#He_111_E

[–] pinoko 7 years ago

The explosion scene was absolutely breathtaking. Some of the action in this movie is a bit too repetitive but they nailed that particular scene. I don't know if it is historically accurate or not but heck, audiovisually it was nothing short of brilliant.

[–] MarcusBritish 7 years ago

I have to laugh when I see people call any war-film action "repetitive", which I do from time to time. How many ways do you think people can shoot weapons or fall down and die without it ever being repetitive? That's the nature of war, sadly...

Personally, I have a lot of respect for this film for sticking to true history instead of introducing fanciful fictional storylines situated around real events, such as Saving Private Ryan did, which weakened that particular film for me, given that D-Day is epic without a fake plot about sending some drip home to his mom early. The Longest Day had no trouble sticking to documented D-Day events. Similarly, Fortress of War does an incredibly good job of showing the opening shots of Operation Barbarossa without ever getting bogged down in sentimentality, romantic sub-plots or political correctness. As a result, I gave this exceptional film 9/10 while Saving Private Ryan got an 8/10 for being less sincere or accurate.