Factual error: During the war games they have Jefferson pose as a major in order to facilitate the commandeering of the ambulance and the jeep. Regardless of their personal feelings in the matter the ambulance crew and the driver and troops in the jeep would be perfectly aware that no black man would ever be promoted to a position of authority in an otherwise all white command. We may find it repugnant today but the US Army was rigidly segregated during World War 2 - and it stayed that way until 1948. Jefferson may have been inducted into a special unit like the Dirty Dozen but considering that the future of the entire mission is riding on their success at the games, throwing it all away like that makes no sense at all.

The Dirty Dozen (1967)
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Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes
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Sergeant Clyde Bowren: Everybody's slipping on soap around here.
Trivia: Notice how the only survivor (Bronson) isn't a "real" Criminal (rapist, murderer etc) but shot a soldier running off with the unit's medical supplies. The Hollywood Code of the time couldn't show criminals "getting away with it."
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Suggested correction: Joe Stern, Eric "Swede" Wallan, Ernesto "Pops" Ferucci, and Francis Kelly survive.
Question: What are the small tubes that are collected in Colonel Breed's H.Q.? General Warden seems to figure out what they are.
Answer: Detonators (for setting off explosives).




