Originally Posted by Galt

I thought it was the same guy who killed Private Mellish. They were wrestling around in that room and Willie eventually drove a knife into Mellish's chest. Remember that Upham (the wimpy guy who sort of befriended Steamboat Willie after the assault on the machine gun bunker) was slowly making his way up the stairs to the room where Mellish was killed, while the guy who killed Mellish was on his way back down the stairs. If it was a different guy, why did he turn his back on an armed American soldier that he didn't know?