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Character mistake: The crew deride Garrett's title of Flight Officer, claiming that she can't have it because she hasn't flown in combat. In fact, Flight Officer was a genuine WAAF rank corresponding to Flight Lieutenant. Many RAF officers holding the ranks of Flight Lieutenant, Flying Officer, and Pilot Officer were not aircrew, despite their titles.

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Factual error: The American flag shown in the animated sequence at the beginning is the modern 50-star version rather than the WWII 48-star version.

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Factual error: The crew chief is originally said to be a corporal. However, he wears master sergeant's chevrons throughout the series.

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Season 2 generally

Factual error: Three inspectors are candidates for the 'job' of chief superintendent and one is appointed. But British police promotion doesn't work like this. Chief superintendent is a rank, not a job, and inspector is three ranks below it. Officers do not skip ranks. The only possible candidates for a post carrying the rank of chief superintendent would be an existing chief superintendent making a sideways move or a superintendent who could be promoted to the next higher rank.

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Factual error: It is stated that Christopher and Corinne settle in Pittsburgh. However, when Christopher is killed in a car accident, the police officers who come to inform Corinne are in a Virginia State Police car. Most of the rest of the series is set in Virginia, probably leading to the mistake, but this scene is not.

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Factual error: The Six Triple Eight depicted has officers and privates but no NCOs whatsoever. In reality, the battalion had the same complement of corporals and sergeants as any other battalion.

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Factual error: At the end, Hunt emerges from a London Underground station called Trafalgar Square. The station that serves Trafalgar Square is Charing Cross. The spot used for filming is, in reality, a public toilet.

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Crossroads - S1-E5

Factual error: The British Lieutenant-Colonel Dobie (his rank is given both in the script and in the credits) is wearing the cap badge only worn by full colonels and brigadiers. Lieutenant-colonels wear regimental cap badges.

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Factual error: The chief of police holds the rank of captain. But the Ontario Provincial Police, to which she belongs, uses the standard Commonwealth police ranks of inspector and superintendent instead of army ranks.

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Character mistake: Abigail says that Max is very unusual as a university graduate who has joined the police, and it can't possibly have been his first choice of career. In fact, well over one-third of British police recruits have been graduates since long before Max would have joined.

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Episode #1.1 - S1-E1

Factual error: The Chief Constable authorises Max's attachment to the New South Wales Police. Max is a Metropolitan Police officer. The Met is headed by a commissioner, not a Chief Constable.

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Factual error: The Torre delle Milizie is visible from the courtyard in the Vatican and looks fairly close. You can't even see the tower from the Vatican. It's quite a long way away.

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Factual error: The RAF Dakota that flies Robin and Diana back from Kenya in 1959 has American markings and D-Day invasion stripes, marking it as a heritage aircraft rather than a service aircraft of the era.

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Factual error: The film describes the British headquarters in Kenya as the "British Embassy." Kenya was still a colony, so there was no British embassy; it was Government House.

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Factual error: Although addressed throughout the film using his correct rank of Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant-Colonel), Rudolf Höss wears the rank insignia of the lower rank of Sturmbannführer (Major).

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Season 3 generally

Factual error: Northern Irish characters speaking to other Northern Irish characters refer to cellphones or cells. They're always known as mobile phones or mobiles in the British Isles. Nobody would use the American term.

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Factual error: Someone shouts "jobsworth" at a London Underground official. This term is first recorded in 1970. The film is set in 1940.

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Factual error: The presidents of South Africa, South West Africa and the Rhodesias all object to Seretse and Ruth's marriage. But the head of state of all these countries and territories at the time was King George VI. None of them had presidents.

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Show generally

Factual error: Karl Silberbauer, who headed the raid on the secret annexe, wears the insignia of an SS-Sturmbannführer (major). He was actually an SS-Hauptscharführer (senior sergeant). His superior is addressed in German as "Herr Major" (not an SS rank and not how an SS officer would be addressed), but wears the insignia of an SS-Standartenführer (colonel).

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Lochan Mor - S3-E8

Factual error: The credits refer to a 'PSNI lieutenant'. The Police Service of Northern Ireland uses standard British police ranks. He would be an inspector.

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