History VideoGame / MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault

* TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold: ''Breakthrough'', in comparison to the original game and ''Spearhead'', covers several battles that are largely forgotten or overshadowed, namely the Italian campaign's Battle of Anzio and Monte Cassino, and even the Gothic Line campaign.

* DeathFromAbove: Two missions in ''Allied Assault'' require Powell to call in air support via P-47 Thunderbolts, to attack German gun positions and tanks.

** In ''Breakthrough'', the cutscenes featuring historic StockFootage are combined with narrations from prominent Allied figures such as UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery and UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill.

** In ''Breakthrough'', the cutscenes featuring historic StockFootage are combined with narrations from prominent Allied figures such as UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomerey and UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The pre-mission briefing for "Omaha Beach" is given by General Dwight Eisenhower.

* BattleInTheRain: ''Allied Assault's'' "Day of the Tiger" and ''Spearhead's'' "Berlin" take place in rainy weather.

* AnachronismStew: ''Breakthrough'', in contrast to the original game and ''Spearhead'', have quite a few anachronisms, such as introducing a sniper variant of the Lee-Enfield that wasn't made ''until the 1970''.

* AnachronismStew: ''Breakthrough'', in contrast to the original game and ''Spearhead'', have quite a few anachronisms, such as introducing a sniper variant of the Lee-Enfield that wasn't made ''until the 1980s''.

* CollapsingLair: In ''Allied Assault'', the player must escape from Fort Schmerzen as the whole fortress is rocked by explosions.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Barnes' ending narration in ''Spearhead'' states that Berlin fell just a few weeks after his mission behind enemy lines, with his Soviet allies from his mission getting their revenge on the Germans in the process. Barnes himself states that he'll more than likely get his ticket home not long after, what with the War in Europe effectively coming to a close.

* NoEnding: ''Allied Assault'' and ''Breakthrough'' end with Powell and Baker escaping with the rest of their units from an enemy CollapsingLair, which then cut to the end credit scene shortly afterwards.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Barnes' ending narration in ''Spearhead'' states that Berlin fell just a few weeks after his mission behind enemy lines, with his Soviet allies from his mission getting their just desserts. Barnes himself states that he'll more than likely get his ticket home not long after.

* ActionizedSequel: Compared to first game and ''Underground'', ''Allied Assault'' features missions set in the frontline, rather than exclusively BehindEnemyLines. The most prominent of these is the entire 3rd mission set in Normandy, from the Omaha beach landing all the way to fighting in the bocage.

* VehicularTurnabout: The entire 5th level is centered around stealing a German King Tiger tank and using it to secure a bridge deep BehindEnemyLines, complete with an American tank crew trained to operate it.

** Even before that, Barnes and several of his squadmates venture deep BehindEnemyLines to acquire a German supply truck and a Half-track armed with an anti-tank gun, which they use to get back to their own lines.

* BattleInTheRain: ''Allied Assault's'' ''Day of the Tiger'' and ''Spearhead's'' ''Berlin'' take place in rainy weather.

* ChekhovsGun: The King Tiger tanks, and more importantly, all documents related to the tank, as they're used by the OSS to train an American tank crew into operating one, setting up the plot of the next level. Two examples of the tank are also shown in the same German-occupied manor the documents were taken from, which can even be destroyed with explosives for a CosmeticAward. Later, during the plan to capture Brest, another example ([[VehicularTurnabout the one Powell and the aforementioned crew steal]]) is later captured by the Americans and used against other German tanks, including another King Tiger.

* AscendedExtra: In the original game, the 101st Airborne Division only appeared briefly in two parts of the level, and as [[RedShirt red shirts]] at that. ''Spearhead'' features them more prominently, with the protagonist Jack Barnes himself a member of the 501st regiment, as well as having an entire level dedicated to them in the form of Bastogne.

* DevelopersForesight: Remember how in the second part of the Normandy level where you call in a P-47 Thunderbolt to bomb out German artillery pieces? Well, you can call that same aircraft in later to destroy a German half-track hampering your way. The reason he doesen't help you to destroy the Tiger I tank encountered later in the same level is due to the pilot telling Powell that he has to make it back to base due to low ammo.

* TheEnemyWeaponsAreBetter: InUniverseExample in ''Spearhead'', where Barnes and a handful of other 101st paratroopers are tasked with acquiring German weapons from a forward supply depot, due to them being short on supplies, particularly ammunition for their own guns as well as the guns themselves. These stolen weapons prove useful when the paras put them to good use, namely by repelling a German night attack on their lines, and then launch a counterattack to retake a village the next morning.

** Early in the Operation Torch level, [[DressingAsTheEnemy American soldiers posing as Afrika Korps members]] are shown presenting identity papers to a sentry. In the next level, Powell himself has the opportunity to do this himself, except this time he poses as an officer, and succeeds in getting past German sentries without any suspicions.