Think about it: Saving Private Ryan; Enemy At The Gates; Independence Day even. In film after film, the Jewish soldier is either useless in combat, killed, or otherwise prevented from being a living, breathing, self-defending human being.
Besides, what I want to address here is the difference between film, in which Jews are portrayed as bad soldiers, and World War Two fiction, in which 'real life' soldierly Jews appear to me to dominate.
One of the books I hope to take on holiday with me next week is the London comic novel Fowlers End (1957) by Gerald Kersh (1911-1968, a Jew and a Coldstream Guardsman).
This sounds ridiculous. It may be that I'm not looking hard enough. Who am I missing? Who else fought in 1939-1945 and wrote fiction about it? Can anyone make any suggestions?