 In the Reconstructed version, the Captain in the World War I  prologue reappears in a short segment as the Commanding General of  the Big Red One just prior to the Battle of Hurgten Forest in the  Fall of 1944. The actual Commanding General during that time period,  Major General Clarence R. Huebner, really was a Captain in the Big  Red One at the end of World War I, so this is historically accurate  rather than just poetic license.