The producers of Isenhower's "Crusade in Europe" did a much better job of producing "Crusade" than Victory at Sea did. The reason being the Army knew where the battle was to take place and had more cameras. Still not enough however. How accurate it was according to the incidents on the ground I have no idea because I have not watched a lot of it. But there was enough action filmed and sign posts filmed that they could at least make a film following the inflammatory narrative. But because they still made the film as if the war was still going on and the narrative had the WW2 incitement to keep killing the enemy whether the film seen actually showed the actually battle is unknown. I will be able to know more if I decide to watch more of production. But I am confident that they no doubt inserted battle scenes that fit rather than battle scenes of that action if they needed it to create the action they wanted. Also they tried to follow the book and show battles in the book wherein they had to pick battles they had battle action on film whether of that place or not. But all film in the archives is identified when and where so to use it elsewhere is not excusable.
The war in Europe was also filmed with silent cameras so all the dubbed sound came from the editing booth in a studio. There must have been some complaints about this because in some films on TV later there was and is to this day the disclaimer that actual battle scenes were not taken at the scene but were inserted. but still accurately displayed what had happened. They call this a re-enactment.
So if you look at this film you know there is lots of editing from the way it was put together. The Germans also used these techniques because at the first of this episode they had cameras looking down on action where the supposed real life soldiers were in fox holes.
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