Re: Campaign Experience
It's Hollywood ... you expect realism?
And yes, they were there to stop an attack on rear area units not fighting to defend their immobile tank.
That said, just because many people were more concerned with CYA then accomplishing their mission hardly means everyone was. You can also look at US desertion rates in the last months of the war, they skyrocketed.
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