09-12-2012, 05:40 PM
It is a dramatisation of a story that Ambrose relates in the book:
It goes on to tell of the rumours that he shot one of his own men who was drunk on duty and machine-gunned a group of German prisoners (a moment earlier dramatised in the film).
Hollywood, eh? What can you do with them?!
Mike Bishop
Quote:The rumor mill swirled around Lieutenant Speirs. No one ever saw "it" happen with his own eyes, but he knew someone who did. They may just be stories, but they were believed, or half-believed, by the men of E Company.S. Ambrose, Band of Brothers, 206
It goes on to tell of the rumours that he shot one of his own men who was drunk on duty and machine-gunned a group of German prisoners (a moment earlier dramatised in the film).
Hollywood, eh? What can you do with them?!
Mike Bishop
