"Battleground" (1949)

A telling of the Battle of Bastogne (Battle of the Bulge??) from the ground inside one company (?).  Cinematography Oscar--it did have some nice shots.  The war montage at the end had simultaneous overlapped images--like a double exposure.  The storyline worked in nicely repeated lines within different contexts to give the movie added unity--Chants and careless tossed off remarks later get repeated with a whole different ring and meaning to them--sometimes as irony, sometimes as a tribute or truth.  And how the movie started (marching chant) is how it ended--again with a different ring and meaning to it.  The brief chaplain appearance happened to be Lutheran in character.  :)  Music was confined to opening and closing credits and to the occasional radio song (diegetic sound, if I'm learning my terms right).  The movie is 40s/50s war accurate in that the gruesome stuff is included but not shown or overly present--decent job of it.  Not a bad movie at all--kept me interested.  Black and white.  Opening credits said the "Screamin' Eagles" were appearing as themselves--I think this was a reference to the actual planes flown???