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* BeamMeUpScotty: Shane Taylor is often asked to say "I need scissors". Eugene doesn't say those exact words in the episode - merely spending a good amount of time looking for scissors and asking a couple of the men if they have them.

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* BeamMeUpScotty: Shane Taylor is often asked to say "I need scissors". Eugene doesn't say those exact words in the episode - merely spending a good amount of time looking for scissors and asking a couple of the men if they have them.



* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Stephen Ambrose had known very little about Renee Lemaire when writing the book, and she's only given a passing mention in the acknowledgments. After discovering her interesting backstory - she was a Bastogne native who had relocated to Brussels, and was simply visiting her parents when the battle struck, later evacuating six people from the burning church - they featured her as a character, employing a little ArtisticLicenceHistory (as Renee had been at a different aid station to Eugene Roe).

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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Stephen Ambrose had known very little about Renee Lemaire when writing the book, and she's only given a passing mention in the acknowledgments. After discovering her interesting backstory - she was a Bastogne native who had relocated to Brussels, and was simply visiting her parents when the battle struck, later evacuating six people from the burning church - they featured her as a character, employing a little ArtisticLicenceHistory (as Renee had been at a different aid station to Eugene Roe).
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* MagnumOpus: According to Shane Taylor, this episode was apparently the one all the directors wanted to do.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Shane Taylor is often asked to say "I need scissors". Eugene doesn't say those exact words in the episode - merely spending a good amount of time looking for scissors and asking a couple of the men if they have them.
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* FakeNationality: Lucie Jeanne is French playing the Belgian nurse Renee. As Bastogne is in the French-speaking region of Belgium, this is a marginal example.
* MagnumOpus: According to Shane Taylor, this episode was apparently the one all the directors wanted to do.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Stephen Ambrose had known very little about Renee Lemaire when writing the book, and she's only given a passing mention in the acknowledgments. After discovering her interesting backstory - she was a Bastogne native who had relocated to Brussels, and was simply visiting her parents when the battle struck, later evacuating six people from the burning church - they featured her as a character, employing a little ArtisticLicenceHistory (as Renee had been at a different aid station to Eugene Roe).
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A scene was filmed where Eugene finds a stray gun and pockets it. But they cut it to keep the character pure.

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