It's hardly been covered exhaustively. Almost every WWII game features single-mindedly on the Americans in Normandy, maybe with Stalingrad and El Alamein thrown in if you're lucky. People appear to be unaware that WWII started before 1941 and featured a lot more fronts than Omaha Beach and Iwo Jima. Do the Battle of…

And from the Dambusters. Even much of the dialogue is literally re-used.

A little thing I like about Gold 5 is that his helmet is really battered and he doesn't even bother to wear the chin strap. Just a clever visual cue that this guy is both a battle-hardened vet, but also more calm and collected than by-the-book Gold Leader.

Damn, you made me find my two year old Disqus account just so I could comment on this. I love A New Hope for the exact reason you described. It's amazing how much personality Lucas brought to all the Rebel pilots, and watching them get picked off one by one adds so much tension to the scene. The helmets are a crucial…

A French general, I think, coined the term "To make an omelette you have to break a few eggs." A bit more callously, another put it that "It takes 10,000 casualties to train a brigadier general", or something like that. So yes, soldiers were considered somewhat expendable at times. But a general's job is not to…

You're right about the silly vilification of the British in the Gallipoli myth, but you're still too harsh. Gallipoli is unfairly treated as an entirely useless expedition that never could have worked, ignoring that it very well could have succeeded and if it had most likely would have knocked the Turks out of the…

The idea that Dominion troops were used as cannon fodder in the Great War is a myth. Around 10,000 Anzac soldiers died during the Dardanelles Campaign, compared to over 30,000 British soldiers, whose deaths are almost entirely overlooked in the sort of nationalist dogma that sprang up after the war.