I watched episode 1 and most of episode 2 of the first series of Our War last night, it was really good. In episode one there seemed to be a big improvement in the performance of the platoon after the first engagement (the first engagement seemed to leave many of the soldiers panic-stricken, poor bastards).
I've never been in combat so I can't claim to be an expert on human reactions under those circumstances but I was a bit surprised that when the platoon had one critically injured and one wounded but pretty much functional it completely withdrew from combat, at speed (2 of the 3 sections withdrew immediately and were shortly joined by the third). Is that standard practice?
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