**_What happens to a sergeant and a private during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest_** If you ignore some glaring issues, this is a decent tale focusing on a couple of war-weary soldiers in late 1944 on the border of Belgium and Germany (Aidan Bristow and Matthew James McCarthy). It was obviously influenced by “When Trumpets Fade” from twenty years prior and “The Last Rescue” from three years earlier, both of which are superior productions. One eye-rolling anachronism is a reference to ’Nam when America wouldn’t have troops there for another twenty years. I’m assuming it was a joke by the wr…
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