Why didn't Wade stay back with Upham?

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In Saving Private Ryan, Captain Miller and his team attack a radar station in this following scene:

Their medic Wade also attacks with them and later dies. My question is why did Miller allow Wade in the attack? Wade doesn't even have any weapons.Why didn't Wade just stay back with Upham?



Best Answer

Upham was a liability for sure because he had very little weapons training. His primary job was to translate and push pencils.

But Wade was a field medic. He has survived Omaha beach assault and was trained to treat injured patients in middle of action.

If a soldier is injured in middle of fight it's difficult to locate and move them through firefight. In such cases a field medic has to reach him and give necessary treatment. That's their priority.

This situation was no different for Wade. That's why he followed everyone else in the battle.




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Why did Upham did not help?

The German soldier is the one who was captured and released blindfolded. He does not kill Upham because he simply remembers him, and Upham was the soldier who fought the most among them so they would not kill the German because he had given up.

Was Upham a coward in Saving Private Ryan?

He signified the loss of innocence in war and thought that soldiers could be civil, but he later succumbed to the evils of war and made up for his cowardice when he shot Steamboat Willie for killing Miller even after the latter had shown Willie mercy earlier.

What happened to Wade in Saving Private Ryan?

Death and Burial While trying to get closer, he was fatally wounded by a machine gun nest after Captain Miller orders them to neutralise it. He had been shot three times in the chest by an MG-42.

Why did reiben survive Saving Private Ryan?

Joining the Army and D-day invasion He almost drowned after his BAR pulled him down, forcing him to discard the weapon. Reiben survived the costly assault on Omaha Beach after finding another gun and assisting in taking the bunkers.



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