Saving Private Ryan

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Tyler Long M4 12\16\13 Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan is a film about a squad of men in the marines going and rescuing a fellow soldier who is supposed to come home but he is behind enemy lines. They arrive on D-day the Normandy beach landing. The film is only loosely based on the real event with the real people. Private James Ryan, the character in the movie is supposed to be portraying Sergeant Frederick (Fritz) Niland. The movie should actually be called “Saving Private Niland” because that is who and what it is based off of. The events in the movie are pretty much made up. Although things like that actually happened in the war there is no proof or documentation that those events actually occurred or led up to the “saving” of Sergeant Niland. Private James Ryan is only based off of Sergeant Frederick Niland. Also there is no mentioning of his other 3 brothers who were also in the marines. The Niland brothers had all joined the marines but obviously got sent off to different units so they were away from each other. There was Sergeant Frederick Niland who is supposed to be Private James Ryan. Brother, Technical Sergeant Robert Niland who was killed in action on D-day at Neuville-au-plain. Second brother Lieutenant Preston Niland who was also unfortunately killed in action on June 7th in the vicinity of Utah Beach. Then the last brother is Technical Sergeant Edward Niland. He was a pilot in the Army Air Force he went MIA (missing in action) in a B-25 plane crash and was presumed dead. So the real story is that Sergeant Frederick was with his unit behind enemy lines. When word got around that his two brothers were killed and another one was missing and presumed dead. Father Francis L. Sampson who was Chaplain of the 501st heard the bad news he immediately began filling out the necessary paperwork to send Frederick home. He did not want the last
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