10 More Insanely Accurate War Movie Details

Easily one of the most harrowing and shocking depictions of World War I to land on screens in recent memory, Netflix's All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who finds himself being thrown into the brutal reality that was this world-changing war.

A decent amount of time is spent within the German trenches on the Western Front during the war picture, and it's during one of these explosive sequences when a machine-gunner is shown blasting away at the enemy in front of them.

What you may not have spotted as the camera pans away from the rapid-firing weapon was the assistant machine-gunner - or more specifically, exactly what said helper had in their hand.

As spotted by one eagle-eyed viewer on r/MovieDetails, said assistant actually appears to be holding a little hammer.

Far from being something that was used to do a little D.I.Y. mid battle, that small tool would be used to hammer away at mud and other things that could potentially jam the machine at any point.

It was the assistant machine-gunner's job to keep those bullets firing, and that meant providing ammunition and also keeping the gun as clean as possible in these often rather hellacious conditions.