Fictional Depictions
The use of a Bangalore Torpedo was depicted as part of a platoon training scene in the WWII movie , as a method to clear a mine field the Bangalore is referred to in the 1967 movie Tobruk, and to clear a barbed wire barrier depicted in the D-Day beach invasion scene in the films Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day, Storming Juno, and The Big Red One as well as the games Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Medal of Honor: Frontline, and Call of Duty 2: Big Red One. In The Big Red One, screenwriter and director Samuel Fuller, a veteran of D-Day, expressed through the narrator his disdain for the inherent hazards of assembling and employing the weapon: "The Bangalore Torpedo was 50 feet long and packed with 85 pounds of TNT, and you assembled it along the way - by hand. I'd love to meet the asshole who invented it!"
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