There was a mix of combat veterans and brand new, barely-trained replacements on the front lines, which gives Fury its setting. The Battle of the Bulge a few months earlier was the costliest battle in US Army history, and the Army struggled to make up casualties that were lost in that fight. One thing that Fury does exceptionally well is showing the general state of the Army in late WW2-worn out, beaten down, and suffering from manpower shortages. In reality the drive into Germany cost the US nearly the same number of casualties as D-day and the breakout in Normandy, and Fury really shows that there was plenty of hard fighting in the last months of the war. It takes place during the final American drive into western Germany, a time that's often glossed over in WW2 history. Although there is plenty of combat action it's really a film about what war does to a person's psyche, and how soldiers lean on each other to survive mentally as much as they do physically in combat.
The setting and historical context were very well done, in a way that I've never seen before in an American WW2 film. I rewatched Fury the other day and I really was reminded that despite some flaws, it's one of my favorite war movies of all time.
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