The Eagle Has Landed: Difference between revisions
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[[Image:TEHLM2c.jpg|thumb|none|601px|Colonel Pitts ([[Larry Hagman]]) prepares to load the anachronistic M2 Carbine.]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c.jpg|thumb|none|601px|Colonel Pitts ([[Larry Hagman]]) prepares to load the anachronistic M2 Carbine.]]
[[Image:TEHL 19.jpg|thumb|none|601px|Pitts with the M2 Carbine. This is the only time the rifle is loaded with the historically accurate straight 20 round magazine.]]
[[Image:TEHL 19.jpg|thumb|none|601px|Pitts with the M2 Carbine. This is the only time the rifle is loaded with the historically accurate straight 20 round magazine.]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c2.jpg|thumb|none|601px|An Army Ranger takes cover and returns fire at the German Paratroopers. It is fitted with an anachronistic curved 30 round magazine.]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c2.jpg|thumb|none|601px|An Army Ranger takes cover and returns fire at the German Paratroopers. It is fitted with an anachronistic curved 30 round magazine.]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c3.jpg|thumb|none|601px|On the left, the Ranger sergeant is seen holding his M2 Carbine.]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c3.jpg|thumb|none|601px|On the left, the Ranger sergeant is seen holding his M2 Carbine.]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Lt. Frazier ([[Jeff Conaway]]) seen with his M2 Carbine after the failed attack on the church.]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Lt. Frazier ([[Jeff Conaway]]) seen with his M2 Carbine after the first failed attack on the church.]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c5.jpg|thumb|none|601px|The Ranger to the left has tapped his magazines together "Jungle Style".]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c5.jpg|thumb|none|601px|The Ranger to the left has tapped his magazines together "Jungle Style".]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c6.jpg|thumb|none|601px|A Ranger fires his M2 Carbine on fully automatic upon entering the church.]]
[[Image:TEHLM2c6.jpg|thumb|none|601px|A Ranger fires his M2 Carbine on fully automatic upon entering the church.]]
The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 WWII thriller based on the Jack Higgins novel of the same name and stars Michael Caine as a German officer who is part of the German High Command's elaborate plan to capture Winston Churchill and bring him to Germany using what remained of a detachment of elite Paratroopers.
The following firearms were used in the film The Eagle Has Landed:
Colonel Pitts (Larry Hagman) carries a Colt Commander as his sidearm. He is seen with the pistol when he searching Joanna's house. A Colt Commander is also seen briefly being used by a Ranger during the church battle. This was probably a stand-in for the regular Colt 45, the Colt Commander itself wasn't introduced on the market until after World War II.
Liam Devlin (Donald Sutherland) appears to carry a Walther PPK as a sidearm. The pistol is found by Arthur who shows it to Molly Prior (Jenny Agutter). Oberst Max Radl (Robert Duvall) is seen relinquishing his sidearm, a Walther PPK, when he is arrested by the Gestapo.
Oberst Kurt Steiner (Michael Caine) and his men from the 12th Fallschirmjaeger Abteilung all carry Sten Mk II submachine guns on the mission when they are disguised as Polish Paratroopers.
Colonel Pitts (Larry Hagman) and most of his Rangers, including Captain Clark (Treat Williams), are equipped with anachronistic M2 Carbines fitted with curved 30 round magazines instead of the more historically accurate straight 20 round magazines. Several of the Rangers' magazines are seen taped together "Jungle Style" for faster reloads. The M2 Carbine was possibly meant as a substitute for both the M1 Garand and the Thompson Submachine gun, which are mentioned in the book.
At least two of Steiner's men are armed with FG 42 rifles when they arrive at the train station. This is historically accurate as the FG 42 was designed for and used by paratroopers.
The Rangers use several anachronistic M20B1 "Super Bazookas" during their attempts to eliminate the Germans in the watermill and also take control of the church. The M20, and the lightened aluminum barreled M20B1 which appears here, was a substitute for the historically accurate M9 Bazooka and/or the M1A1Bazooka.
