Factual error: None of the German tanks are accurate representations of German WWII types. They are all post war US variants.
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Robert Shaw's character is based on Kampfgruppe Jochim Peiper of 1st SS Leibstandart Adolph Hitler, Panzer Division. Peiper was a ruthless but extremely effective officer who had learnt his trade in death on the Russian front. Peiper survived the battle and the war and although he was initially sentenced to death for his part in the Malmedy massacre his sentence was commuted. He was killed in France in 1976 when his house was firebombed in a revenge attack. See more...
Continuity: During the battle for Bastogne a German tank is coming over a wall. Two GIs place plastic explosives the size of bricks (and white), on the underside of the tank. Watch as the explosives are placed - they disappear, then they return again just before the explosion.
Continuity: Near the beginning, Henry Fonda is in a scout plane and flies over Robert Shaw, who is in a German staff car below. Fonda tells the pilot to "rev the engine" just above the car to entice Shaw to look up at them, so he can get a good photograph of his face. The plan works, and the ground level movie camera shows Shaw looking up. When the "photo from the air" is later developed, it shows Shaw looking up from the ground level camera's perspective, eyes focused about 30 degrees behind the airplane and giving a profile of Shaw.
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