The top mistakes in Battle of the Bulge http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1864 en Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:56:26 +0000 19558 None of the German tanks are accurate representations of German WWII types. They are all post war US variants. 23077 In the final scene showing the retreating German army, the land they are travelling over is fairly flat and devoid of trees. The Battle of the Bulge was fought in the thickly forested and hilly Ardennes Forest. 154845 The "German" halftracks are all in fact American halftracks painted in German colours. The vehicles used by the two sides looked very different. 24401 During the scene (near the end of the film) in which Col. Hessler's tanks attack a hilltop fuel depot, American GI's counterattack by rolling burning 55 gallon gasoline drums at the German tanks. When one of the burning drums hit Col. Hessler's tank, the tank IMMEDIATELY explodes and its turret blows off. The blowing off of the turret indicates that something inside the tank (most likely the ammunition) exploded. However, in order for a burning gasoline drum to cause such an explosion, the burning gasoline has to heat the interior of the tank to make it hot enough for the ammunition inside to explode. 80850 In the scene where Col. Hessler is visited by a courtesan, he refuses her "services", opens the door and hands her her fur coat. In the next shot, the door is closed again and the colonel still has the courtesan's fur coat.