The top mistakes in Battle of the Bulge http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1864 en Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:55:08 +0000 19558 None of the German tanks are accurate representations of German WWII types. They are all post war US variants. 24302 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. 16451 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. 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. 40845 The American vehicles (jeeps, trucks) in many scenes are painted in German camouflage patterns and colors. If you look you will see the classic red brown/dark green stripes on dark yellow covering them.