Visible crew/equipment: When the group of U.S. soldiers is going to a higher position (to attack Germans from the top), a camera and crew are visible on right side of the screen. (00:22:55)
The Lost Battalion (2001)
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Directed by: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Ricky Schroder, Jay Rodan, Jamie Harris, Phil McKee
Factual error: The canteens used by US troops in a couple of the scenes are the wrong type. The twin handle design M1956 came out in the mid 1950s.
Cepheglia: This is a French Cho-Cho.
Rosen: Chauchat.
Cepheglia: It's a piece of garbage, don't worry about it.
Rosen: Leave it to Henchman and Hollingshead.
Cepheglia: Don't worry about mortars, tanks and artillery.
Rosen: We don't have any of that either.
Cepheglia: Basically we're mud crunchers,.
Rosen: Gravel agitators.
Cepheglia: Infantry.
Question: In one of the last scenes of the movie when the camera is spanning the waste of the battlefield, why is there a British Lee Enfield rifle shown propped up against a tree? Why would that weapon be found there?
Answer: It was not uncommon for us troops in WW1 to be issued the Lee Enfield or the 1917 Enfield.
Answer: Units from all nations were mixed throughout the field.