Imagine making a movie like this today, glorifying our firepower, desire, and ability to destroy the enemy?

If we, as a nation, went back to mindset like this, where this level of commitment to total victory was acceptable, the GWOT would have been over years ago.

 

@7:28 tank tread affixed to the front of the tank in front of the driver and MG seat.  Forward thinking?

From what I gather it was pretty standard thinking in the field - add on "field applique armor" that helped defend against the better guns of the Kraut tanks. But you didn't see it often.

Commanders (Gen Patton for one) hated it though. Thought it looked "shabby" and "ill disciplined". He felt that men adding extra armor demonstrated that they lost faith in the armor and equipment they were issued.