Historical Inaccuracy In The Film Fury

The movie Fury is an American war film which was produced in the year 2014. The movie revolves around the events that transpired in the last days of World War 2. It was developed based on what the director (David Ayer) learnt about the kind of service that his family who were now veterans of World War 2 offered to the United States and the Allies as a block. During its production, Ayer who now had some touch with some of the participants of the war tried as much as he could to make the movie as accurate as he could with regards to the military attacks, weapons, uniforms and maps. However as much as it has been said that most of the events in the movie reflect the real experience of World War 2, not everything in the movie really resonates the

exact events of the last days of World War 2.
In the movie, Fury a significant portion of historical accuracies of the last days of world war two were well exposed; a fact which granted it the excellent perception of how accurate it was. As it is known World War 2 was a war between the Allies and Axis which started in 1939 through to 1945. It was the deadliest conflict in human history now that several lives of both soldiers and the civilians were lost and this is clearly depicted in the film Fury. However, some historical inaccuracies were committed with regards to the last days of World War 2.
Despite Avery's desire for historical accuracy, some of the military weapons and attacks were not well represented. Starting with the opening shot, the movie Fury opens by telling us the viewers that the Americans' military weapons (the tanks) had inferior armor and guns to those of the Germans who were now their enemies. This issue of portraying the American weapons to be inferior to those of the Germans was just but a former myth and generalization aspect which did not truly reflect the military weapons owned by both divides.
Therefore, it was a historical inaccuracy shown in the movie with regards to this inferiority notion because the military weapons owned during the war, the U.S Sherman tanks and German Tigers, based on their production facts were more equals than this superiority and inferiority aspect depicted in the film. This notion of equality was because the 76mm gun that was being used by the American Sherman tanks had an equal velocity to that of the 88mm German Tiger gun . Therefore, it was inaccurate for the film Fury to open with a remark that the American tanks were inferior to those used by the Germans.
On the other hand, still on the issue of the weapons used in the war, it was equally historically inaccurate for the movie to show that the American Sherman tank by the name Fury was in the company of other three Sherman tanks that ganged up against one German Tiger during one of the military confirmations. Displaying of the scene of Sherman tanks versus the Tiger was historically inaccurate by the fact that the American Sherman tank by the name Fury was among those tanks in the Tiger scene.
As much as it was common knowledge that Sherman tanks had to gang up so as to take on the Tigers it was not the case when Fury was present. Fury was not a regular Sherman since Fury was an "Easy Eight" Sherman with a high-velocity gun . Therefore, the scene that the Sherman's had to gang up against the Tiger was an exaggeration of how powerful the Tiger was. In real life, it is known that if that was the case the Fury's Sherman platoon would have knocked out the Tiger immediately and with a lot of ease and not how it was displayed in the movie.
Similarly, there was a historical inaccuracy with regards to the military attacks shown in the film. From the movie Fury, it is displayed that most military strikes took place at close range. Soldiers of both divides that is the Allies and the Axis and their respective tanks are shown to have confronted each other on a one on one battle. Something which was not an accurate reflection of the real experiences of world war 2. As one of the veterans came out and stated during an interview, that there was no experience like a one on one tank confrontation like the one in the film but rather the real cases was that the battles were fought at considerable distances .
Consequently, the commander role in the movie was also another historical inaccuracy.

The commanders in the film that is Brad Pitt and Jason Isaacs served in positions that they would have been allowed to serve during World war 2. For instance, Brad Pitt's position in the movie as Don "Wardaddy" Collier; a hardened Army staff sergeant who commanded a Sherman tank against the German Nazis was a misinterpretation of the military age of soldiers who were supposed to participate in world war 2. Brad Pitt who is displayed in the movie as a 50-year individual reflected a historical inaccuracy since in the US during world war two the average age for any US commander by then was between the age of 21 to 37 (briefly to 45 years) . Thus, when Brad Pitt is assigned the role of a commander in the film, it is indeed inaccurate of the permissible age that a US commander was supposed to be during the

war.
Additionally, the movie Fury inaccurately displayed how prisoners of war (POWs) were treated during world war 2. A prisoner of war was an individual whether in combat or not who was held and put into custody by an enemy during an armed conflict. Therefore, during world war two it was not an exception that such individuals existed. Both divides that is the Allies and the Axis had some of their soldiers put to custody by their enemies in cases of failed missions or during some ambushes for some reasons such as punishing them, demonstrating military victory, or prosecuting them for crimes committed . This was the case for prisoners of war during world war 2; they were held for such reasons but now what differs between what was shown in the movie and real life was how they were treated by the enemy once caught.
In the movie, it was historically inaccurate to show that that one of the prisoners of war was shot and killed by one of the American soldiers.

Brad Pitt who now acted as Don is seen to force one of his crew members by the name Norman to execute one of the German soldiers who had been captured. Don forcefully pushes Norman to pull the trigger and shoot the German soldier as the others clapped and watched. However, this was not the case in world war 2. As much as hundreds of thousands of soldiers were held captive during the war, they were never supposed to be executed the enemy. There existed rules and regulations that governed how the prisoners of war were supposed to be treated, and these rules were contained in the Geneva Convention. Hence treatment of prisoners of war by the Allies was substantially based on what the Geneva Convention stipulated and in this case, it wanted those held to be put into custody but rather not dealing with them through brutal shootings. Therefore, it was historically inaccurate for the movie to show that one of the Allied soldiers despite being commanded to do so killed one of the prisoners of war. All that happened in real life was holding them and not killing

them.
Lastly, there was a historical inaccuracy at the ending scene when the movie shows Fury the Sherman standing against the SS battalion without infantry support. This was inaccurate by the fact that there is no confrontation in world war two that a tank lacked infantry support. Each and every time there was an attack or confrontation, the respective tank whether a Sherman or a German Tiger had to have infantry support. And the reason for this was that the support was meant to outweigh the name such that a win was the expected result. Thus, when the film Fury shows the American Sherman standing against the SS battalion, it was inaccurate considering that this would have resulted in an easy defeat and not the win that is displayed in the movie.
In conclusion, the film Fury has much as it accurately represented the real experiences of world war 2 to some extent it also committed some few historical inaccuracies which were contrary to the real experiences of the war. From the military weapons, attacks, to soldiers, Ayer falls short of the truth of the matter about world war 2 to some extent.