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By Jericho McCune Hollywood has been mining World War II for stories since before World War II was over. Through the magic of cinema, all of the major battles are readily available to experience vicariously through film. More often than not, big budgets and exciting explosions dominate the screen. Films like Pearl Harbor and Saving Private Ryan allow us to relieve the most exciting parts of the war from the hero’s perspective, and in the end we can be rest assured we will feel good because regardless of the outcome we know we were fighting the good fight. WW2 was about much more than pop...