Fusel points out that most americans got their history, knowledge of the second world war from books like the time life, life goes to war. And he says that a better comparison for what your average combat soldier was seeing would be what a plain crash of hundreds of people in a jet aircraft looks like if you're the first one that wanders up on the scene. He talks about how most of these soldiers would see all the things that are normally on the inside of a human body on the outside. You'll see no portrayals of american troops looking like that in your history books, believe it or not.

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