I know that movies "based on real events" typically take a great deal of artistic license.
in the film The Greatest Beer Run Ever, our main character witnesses a few things that really did happen in Vietnam, and really were kept secret at the time, such as military action occurring in places where the government said it wasn't, and some CIA war crimes.
but, one additional thing is that our main character sees the Americans blow a hole in the embassy wall after the attack on the embassy, I think it was a stray round from a tank or something. when the press shows up, they are all told that it was VC sappers who did it, and our main character tries to correct the record.
whenever I try looking this up, it's all references to this film, but all of the Rddit threads I can find about it have the responses deleted which is weird.
was this entirely fabricated for the film?
It was a dude named Morflak. Straight up ran in there with a bomb and a torch. I wasn’t there but my grandfather was. Almost lost Helms Deep that day