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For the jump into Normandy, the C-47s had their doors removed. This is shown when the paratroopers are chuting up and when they're in flight, yet when the planes are taking off the doors are back on the aircraft. [Not all of the doors were taken off, the paratroopers had a choice to ride with the doors open to smoke, and closed to reduce the noise. Smoking with closed doors was regarded as a hazard, as the smoke would need to vent.]
Doc Roe is supposed to be a southerner, but he sounds like he's from Boston or such. I am from Mississippi and I have never heard any true southerner talk like that. [Doc Roe is from Louisiana, he states that he is cajun, and that is how "Cajun" people sound.]
During the ninth episode, two German boys are standing on a bridge watching a column of German prisoners of war. One of the boys says he can see an aircraft that was shot down and the other boy replies "Cool." Back in 1945 this term was unknown in Germany, even to kids. [The kids may very well have picked up this term from American GI's. Please bear in mind that at that moment there are thousands of American soldiers in Germany.]
In the deathcamp near Landsberg, Liebgott translates what one of the prisoners tell him and some officers about the camp. At one point the prisoner starts to explain that the guards killed as many prisoners as they could and says in German "Sie hatten nicht genug..." . That's "They didn't have enough..." in English. Then Liebgott says "They didn't have enough ammo to kill all the prisoners." How could he know what the prisoner was about to say since he never finished the sentence? [Since there are still prisoners alive and Liebgott is a fairly intelligent soldier, that was all the prisoner had to say. As in the job of any translator, Liebgott logically put it together.]
In 'The Last Patrol', Webster is chosen to go on the patrol because he can speak German. In the next episode, 'Why We Fight', when he pulls a gun on the German baker, another soldier has to translate for him. [Webster understands the baker perfectly, he just doesn't particularly care about any excuses that the man might have. The other soldier is trying to get Webster to back off by emphasizing what the baker is saying to him.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When Webster reports back to Easy Company, he asks about Sgt. Malarkey. Someone tells him that Malarkey was being made a Lieutenant and that he's on the "fast track". However, Sgt. Lipton was the noncom promoted to Second Lieutenant. Malarkey remained a sergeant. [That was part of the plot - not a mistake. It plays out later when Webster sees Malarky and congratulates him for the promotion. Malarky comments that he must mean Lipton.]
Corrected by Zwn Annwn
When Webster reports back to Easy Company, he asks about Sgt. Malarkey. Someone tells him that Malarkey was being made a Lieutenant and that he's on the "fast track". However, Sgt. Lipton was the noncom promoted to Second Lieutenant. Malarkey remained a sergeant. [Try watching a bit closer. In practically the next scene, Lt Jones congratulates Malarkey on his promotion, only to be corrected. Clearly an example of a character mistake, and an intentionally scripted one at that.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
During the "prisoner snatch" patrol, as the American soldiers are preparing to cross the river with the German prisoners, a firefight ensues. Immediately after Lt. Jones picks up the whistle off the ground, someone is heard yelling, "Go!" and a bit more which I was unable to understand. It sounds a lot like Tom Hanks, whose voice is quite distinguishable. None of the other soldiers on that particular patrol had that voice. [I looked at the scene and while it does sound very much like Tom Hanks there is no way to know conclusively this is Tom Hanks. The reason I think it sounds familiar is the actor that says Go is none other than Tom Hanks' son Colin Hanks, who sounds somewhat similar to his father.]
Corrected by Lummie
This episode was created on a set, so, in the scene where Buck, Babe, and Guarnere are looking across the open field at the other side at the trees and hear the Germans start singing "Stille Naucht", you can see that the trees are just painted on the wall of the set. [This scene you are referring to is computer generated imagery, it most certainly is not painted on.]
Corrected by manthabeat
In part 5, crossroads, when they are firing on the Polish and the SS companies, you see the left side of the 30-cal machine gun. As it fires you see shells dropping out of the outer side. This shouldn't happen because that would indicate a disintegrating belt, but they didn't come into use until the 1960's so the rounds from the gun should be in a belt. [The machine gun has to strip a round off the belt to be fed into the chamber. The belt itself does not disintegrate, but there is no way for the gun to put the fired casing back in the belt.]
In part 5 when they are assaulting the German companies, Winter is in the lead and Arter puts a round in the first German. He shoots off 9 more (2 too many), then reloads and only shoots 6 off (2 too few), and in both cases the clip ejects. [As stated in another correction, what you are seeing is first a slow-motion firing, and then it goes back in time to show the sequence again at regular speed. Blithe still fires the correct number of rounds.]
When Winters shoots the SS kid at the start of the episode, we see a close-up of his face and gun and when he shoots we can see the bayonet on the end of his gun wobble as if it was made of rubber. [The bayonet is wobbling back and forth, yes, but this is due to the slightly loose joint attaching it to the gun - if you look carefully, the bayonet itself isn't bending in any way, it's just moving slightly around its joint.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In the episode "Crossroads" when Easy company is charging across the field, you can see the actors' mouths open as if they are yelling but there is no sound. [This is a deliberate artistic decision on the part of the film-makers. The reason being is that there is an emphasis on the other sounds, like feet pounding on the ground as the rest of the platoon is running after Winters. It is supposed to be silent until he shoots the German child, and then you start hearing other sounds.]
In part 4, 'The Replacements,' when the MG-42 starts firing after the first Sherman is hit, it stops and starts continually and flashes when the gun isn't firing. [All of the shooting in this mini-series, is done stylistically, as if you are actually present there in combat with them. Thus having certain times (as in the case with Tipper in Carentan) the sound is muffled. When a machine gun opens up on you, you don't hear every single shot. Especially when it is on top of a building, and there are obstacles in your path of hearing.]
Corrected by Alex Fulle
In episode three, Carentan, during the first battle in the city. Watch the part where two soldiers go in the house with the backyard shed (right before the same house gets bombed). Paranoid, one of the two soldiers shoots the backyard shed twice over a period of about 5 seconds. Well in his first shot, one bullet hole appears. In his second shot, two bullet holes appear. How can one bullet make two holes? [For anyone who has ever fired a semi-automatic rifle, they would know that one can fire 3 shots and it can sound like 2 due to the speed of the firing. Also as with most other guns occassional additional fire can happen when the trigger is pulled. This is referred to as trigger bounce.]
Corrected by Alex Fulle
In the scene where CPT Winters is telling Blithe to shoot his M1 Garand, he starts and shoots eight rounds in the slow motion part, the clip should be empty and the Garand should ping as it ejects the empty clip, but Blithe shoots four more bullets (making 12 shots total). A M1 Garand only holds 8 rounds; where did he get the extra 4? [Actually, Blithe fired 8 rounds correctly. This is in slow motion. When it goes back to normal speed, it's been set back to show the same firing sequence in regular speed, although only the last 4 rounds. If you look at the last shell fired, it flies out spinning. If you look when it's at normal speed, you'll see the exact same thing. The error is actually him recocking to fire a 9th round, not 12th.]
In part 3, when a soldier is shot in the fingers, he is holding a bolt-action rifle. In 1944, the M1 Garand was the rifle all infantry used, and paratroopers used a special carbine with a folding stock. All of these were semi-automatic. No paratrooper, in 1944, had a bolt-action rifle, and if it was German, then he would have turned it in to get an American weapon. [The US Army did issue a bolt-action rifle (the 1903 Springfield) to snipers, including snipers in Parachute Infantry Regiments. Presumably the man shown in this scene is a sniper. (Incidentally, the folding carbine version of the M1 was not standard issue for paratroopers. Look at photos of (the real) Easy Company in Normandy. Almost every one is carrying a standard M1 Garand.).]
In the third episode, Carentan, when the allied soldiers run into the city, one of the soldiers gets shot and falls to the ground in the middle of the street. Yet in the very next shot of that location, you can see the "dead" soldier adjust his arm. [It could be very likely that the soldier only was injured when he was shot, thereby able to move his arm]
In the attack on Carentan when they start clearing the buildings, they send Tipper and Liebgott to check a pharmacy. Tipper is carrying a bazooka on his back. When they have checked it, Liebgott leaves, but Tipper lingers behind to check a shack in the backyard. When he is about to leave the store, it is hit by artillery. As he walks out of the pharmacy a couple of seconds later, the bazooka on his back has disappeared. [Given the violence of the explosion, it seems quite likely that it could have broken the narrow strap (visible as Tipper enters the building) holding the bazooka onto his back.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
After the jump into Normandy, Lt. Winters ad hoc platoon attacks the Germans under the railroad bridge. When he yells at Sgt Guarnere for not waiting for his order to fire, he turns and says, 'Move out, quietly.' But his mouth never moves. [Winters did not give that order, Carwood Lipton does.]
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