Military Advisor on SAVING PRIVATE RYAN Explains Private Jackson’s Bruised Thumb

Did you catch the bruise under Private Jackson's thumbnail in Saving Private Ryan? Many videos imply that Barry Pepper's character's injury was a detail added by Steven Spielberg to represent a common WWII injury dubbed Garand Thumb that happened to soldiers who got their thumbs caught in the loading mechanism of an M1 Garand rifle. While the M1 Garand was a widely used WWII rifle, Private Jackson uses an M1903A4 Springfield sniper rifle. So how did Jackson get the bruise under his thumb in Saving Private Ryan? We asked Dale Dye, the military technical advisor on the film. #savingprivateryan #ww2 #privatejackson #m1garand #garandthumb

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Yeah...Pepper went through the same boot camp that the rest of the gang went through....minus Matt Damon...so he had Garand thumb like most people get when they first operate the Garand...I thought this had been confirmed long long ago. Here is a fun fact that I learned recently...Spielberg got the idea to keep Matt Damon out of the boot camp from Kubrick keeping Tim Colceri in a hotel room instead of with the rest of the Marines on Full Metal Jacket. Of course, that is what led to R Lee Ermey "stealing" the role of Gunny Hartman from Colceri by being so incredible as a drill instructor on set where Kubrick could see him.😁