Christmas Truce

While this film tells a fictional story of World War II, a true Christmas truce occurred during World War I (the Great War, as it was known back then). During the holiday season of 1914, troops of opposing sides interrupted their fighting to share Christmas moments together in uncoordinated random ceasefires, after which they returned to their respective sides to continue the business of war.

Myers and his team wear shoulder patches indicating they are assigned to the headquarters of Patton's Third Army which, during the Battle of the Bulge, was totally occupied with shifting the direction of attack by nearly half a million armor-heavy troops 90 degrees. They would then march them 100 miles in a blizzard, one of the greatest tactical and logistical feats in that theater of operations. They would not have been involved in an airborne commando operation behind the lines.