Talk:Old Phyliss/@comment-80.1.250.101-20180706211704/@comment-2601:200:101:C18:55DA:96D5:569F:D910-20190829190248

Fury in some ways was a shout-out to the tank platoon "commanded" (in a most UN-military fashion, as with everything else the group of misfits do!) by SGT "Oddball" (real name never given)) and recruited by "Kelly" (presumably the once, at least for a short time, 1LT, considered a 'pretty good' platoon leader until his unit was mistakenly ordered to take the "wrong" hill, virtually wiped out, and received the blame, presumably court-martialed for deriliction of duty) after the discovery of the gold being stored by the Germans in a French bank some thirty miles behind the front lines.  When Oddball "chimes in" on Kelly and Crapgame's conversation, and mentions that the caper couild use some "armor support", Kelly asks who's in charge of his "outfit".  Oddball replies that, for the moment, they don't have one, seeing themselves as being "held in reserve" for a possible German counter-attack (Battle of Arrancourt?) that threatens Paris, or even New York, in the meanwhile enjoying a period of "rest and recuperation", as their late platoon commander, whose death Oddball expresses no regrets over, claiming that the officer had been "trying to get them killed ever since they landed at Omaha Beach", and met his end DECAPITATED BY AN 88mm ROUND (could have been from a Tiger, a Jagpanther, a "Nashorn" (open-topped tank destroyed on a Panzer IV chassis), or a towed Flak 36 that did either anti-tank or anti-aircraft work).

Of course, Peterson was a Staff Sergeant, not a First Lieutenant, and presumably was not missed, but not due to any animus, but simpy that the surviving crew was fighting (and quickly, lost) a desperate battle against the Tiger, and they obviously didn't have time to mourn.