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‘Saving Private Ryan’ didn’t make the Army’s list of most accurate movie portrayals
An Army historian felt that while the film’s iconic and terrifying D-Day landing scenes were realistic, the rest of the film’s action and plot made it a “typical World War II movie.”
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