Continuity mistake: The SS commander is at various times with at least three completely different sets of epaulettes. In one scene, while he is addressing two aides, the epaulettes of all three change between shots.
Necrothesp
10th Jan 2022
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
10th Jan 2022
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
Factual error: The German soldiers arrive at the dockside in what are American Jeeps.
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Suggested correction: 64,000 vehicles were abandoned by the Allies during the Dunkirk evacuation. Of these, 2000 were put into service by the Germans. Doubtless there were a few jeeps in there somewhere.
America wasn't involve in the Dunkirk evacuation and the jeep wasn't produced until 1941, so where would they have come from?
The raid depicted in the film took place in December 1942. By that stage over 5,000 jeeps had been supplied to the Soviet Army, hundreds of which were captured by the invading Germans during Operation Barbarossa, which commenced in June 1941.
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