Although the coxswain (Ronald Longridge) of Captain Miller's landing craft should have been a British sailor piloting an LCA, the movie's use of American LCMs instead of British LCAs makes an American coxswain more appropriate. It's unfortunate that LCAs were not used in the film as it would have provided a better indication of British involvement in Operation Overlord.

Criticism that Saving Private Ryan only shows American forces is largely unwarranted because of the focus and scope of the story, but in this case the use of British LCAs and coxswains would have been realistic and appropriate.

Ironically, Ronald Longridge is British and a former Royal Marine.