Corrected entry: A couple of scenes show Japanese planes diving into US carriers. Kamikaze planes never struck until late 1944.
Corrected entry: Admiral Nimitz (Henry Fonda) is at the hospital visiting Admiral Halsey (Robert Mitchum). Nimitz is asking Halsey who his replacement should be since Halsey is laid up with a skin disease. A jet engine can be heard very clearly in the background.
Correction: Sounded like a single engine prop to me I used to fly them. Definitely not a jet.
I replayed that scene 4 times it is definitely a single engine prop.
Corrected entry: Captain Garth's spectacular crash is in a Korean War Naval Jet (an F9F Panther) and not the Wildcat he should have been flying. BTW, the pilot of the jet walked away without a scratch.
Correction: Captain Garth was flying an SBD Dauntless during the battle. The Wildcat was a single-seat fighter.
Correction: The intent of the original error is the movie splices in Korean war footage of a jet crashing to depict Capt. Garth crashing in a WW2 propeller driven aircraft. As such this is a valid error.
Correction: Planes diving into US ships doesn't make them kamikaze planes, who are specially fitted to be a flying bomb. They just had a damaged plane and decided to sacrifice themselves to hurt their enemy, even American pilots did that.
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