Film critics derided producer Joseph E. Levine for casting 35-year-old Ryan O'Neal to play an Army General. But in reality, Brigadier General James M. Gavin was only 37 years old at the time of the battle. In fact, shortly after this battle, Gavin was promoted to Major General, and at thirty-seven, was the youngest man ever to hold that rank. All true, but George Armstrong Custer was made a Major General of Volunteers at age 24, and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette was a Major General in the Revolutionary War Continental Army at 19.

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