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When the crew are piling into their jeep to ride out to their aircraft, the gunners ask the officers what their target is, and are disgusted to hear that it is Bremen, a tough one. The gunners should know their target already. Gunners were briefed on their target, and told what kind of fighter opposition to expect. See more...

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Memphis Belle (1990) - 6 corrections

Directed by Michael Caton-Jones, starring Eric Stoltz, Matthew Modine (add more)

Genres: Action, Drama, War

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These bombers were flying at a very high altitude. The air at that altitude was extremely cold. In fact, many wounded airmen survived because their blood would freeze and therefore stop the bleeding. Due to the fact that the cabin was not pressurized, this necessitated the need for oxygen,"bomber's jackets" and gloves. Under NO circumstances would airmen remove their gloves to touch metal because their skin would instantly adhere to any exposed metal at that altitude/temperature. This makes the scene with the disappearing/reappearing medal seem unbelievable. [Freezing blood did NOT save the lives of airmen serving in WW2, in fact it killed them if anything.]

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Everytime the gun crews call out attacking fighters, they identify them as (Focke-Wulf) 190's. Only two such aircraft appear in the movie. The rest of the German fighters are Messerchmitt Bf109's. [During the fighter attacks it is consistently stated by the crew that the incoming fighters are "One-oh-nines". Their voices are strangled and distorted by the oxygen masks but still clear enough.]

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In a couple of scenes one of the crew is shown taking photographs indoors with a box camera. As no flash was used and there wouldnt have been any high speed film for that type of camera, they wouldnt have come out. [And since we never see the photograph it may well have been underexposed and useless, so this is not a film mistake but a character mistake.]