Question: Could you really use tracer rounds in the type of machine guns the Germans were firing during the Normandy scene at the beginning of the movie, as seems to be the case?
stiiggy
10th Nov 2017
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
16th Jan 2014
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Question: What do the soldiers have in their mouths during combat? Shortly after Miller's team disables the machine gun nest at Omaha Beach you can see Tom Sizemore take something out his mouth and drop it and later when Edith Piaf's song is playing he takes something out of a bag and puts it into his mouth again.
Answer: During landing scene he puts chewing tobacco in his mouth... later we see him take it out and then still later he takes more from the same pouch.
Answer: They're chewing gum, or maybe tobacco.
Answer: Chewing tobacco without a doubt.
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Answer: Absolutely. There were tracer rounds in ammo belts for the MG42.
lionhead
Could you fire incendiary rounds as well?
Yes, an MG42 can fire incendiary rounds.
lionhead
Incendiary rounds and tracer rounds are the same thing.
stiiggy
No, they're not. In WWI they were the same phosphorus rounds but later tracer rounds carried a lot less flammable and volatile substance than incendiary rounds.
lionhead