Review of Ardennes Fury (2014) by Stuart S — 23 Jan 2015

I watch about the first 3 minutes of this trash. As an historian and quite familiar with US Army operations in Western Europe (my father was an infantry man wounded in the Hurtgan Forest) they got it all wrong from the get go.

First they are crewing an M 18 Hellcat tank destroyer. This is not a tank, it has an open turret for one thing. Its high velocity 76 mm gun was capable of destroying a Tiger tank as shown in the movie. However, not with a head on shot as shown. It needed to hit the sides, turret or rear. Also, Hellcats were the fastest armor fighting vehicle of WWII hit 50 miles in flat open country. They were designed to shoot and scoot and not sit ideally in the open.

Second, there were TD units crewed by blacks but there were no integrated crews. Integrated units came under Harry Truman at the end of the 1940s.

Third, the non-CGI generated German tank was actually a Russian T-34. While the Germans routinely used captured armor especially the T-34, they didn't use them on the Western Front.

Can I give this less than 1 star? It deserves a negative rating.