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I love WWII Horror stories so imagine my disappointment when this lacked any bits of horror. I guess you went with the horrors of war? I feel a lot of people will DQ or rate it low due to not meeting the requirements.
Good job on writing something, try to stick to the requirements next time and I think people will go for whatever you offer.
In this day and age, it's difficult to inject suspense, much less horror, in a straight war story. It's all been done before. Rescuing a pregnant woman from German occupied territory is admirable, but you need a more important objective to warrant interest in a war story.
I'm sure others have pointed out the following technical problems with the script, but since I don't read what others have written until all of my own comments are done, please bear with me:
1. V1 rockets were too valuable to use on an isolated unit of allied soldiers. Besides, you can't aim them like artillery or mortars, which are the weapons you would use in this case. 2. Ranks and names were never used over the radio. Unique call signs were assigned to all units and their leaders. 3. You never use the words "over" and "out" in the same sentence when you're terminating a radio conversation. "Over" means it's the other guy's turn to talk. "Out" means you're done talking and listening.
Others have covered your WW2 story very well. The part I have a comment on is:
PAGE 6:
YOUR ACTION: Three more SNIPER SHOTS are fired at the rear jeeps. Two civilians are hit. Hank is shot in the head. Jake pulls him against the jeep. Hank still moves. No medics are around.
I say how is this filmable? In your action paragraph, I see (in my head) a LS of the jeeps then maybe a MS of two civilian wounded then a possible CU of Hank getting a bullet in the head then to a MS of Jake pulls him against the jeep and lastly "no medics are around."
Do you see the difficulty of filming that paragraph. Then seeing no medics around. I didn't see any bartenders around either. See my point.
I see good possibilities here but a lot of polishing is needed.
Visualize the action as if you're the cameraman and write your action shots accordingly.