This is a great piece of information, stanton, and it confirms what I have been saying here for years: the faces of the soldiers are not shown deliberately (they show some, sure, but only the young boy Blondie gives his cigarillo to, the drunk captain, the doctor, and I think a very few others can be glimpsed at), the soldiers on the other side were also not shown for a purpose - as if it doesn't matter who's on the other side (as it rarely/never does). This was not just a matter of economics, as some here stated (can't remember who it was but they must have been bloody Yanks, I know that

), the meaning was far more subtle and deep.
