Did you catch the bruise under Private Jackson's thumbnail in Saving Private Ryan? Many videos imply that Barry Pepper's character's injury was a detail added by Steven Spielberg to represent a common WWII injury dubbed Garand Thumb that happened to soldiers who got their thumbs caught in the loading mechanism of an M1 Garand rifle. While the M1 Garand was a widely used WWII rifle, Private Jackson uses an M1903A4 Springfield sniper rifle. So how did Jackson get the bruise under his thumb in Saving Private Ryan? We asked Dale Dye, the military technical advisor on the film. #savingprivateryan #ww2 #privatejackson #m1garand #garandthumb