WAR MOVIE BLUNDERS

[patches]

5 hours ago, Boy Howdy said:

Sorry 'bout that.

Credit given where credit is due!

Nah, don't worry about that, its a new topic for you to go threw, lots of great screen grabs from movies where real military unit patches are used

[General Apathy]

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U-571 film ( 2000 )

 

within the first five minutes of this film a German submariner is seen wearing an American USAAF A-14 oxygen mask as he extinguishes a fire.

 

The storyline is about a U.S. submarine crew capturing an Enigma machine from a damaged U-Boat, in reality this didn't happen until late 1944 and post D-Day, the Royal Navy had captured one three years earlier in May 1941. 

 

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regards lewis.

 

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[TheCrustyBosun]

1 hour ago, General Apathy said:

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U-571 film ( 2000 )

 

within the first five minutes of this film a German submariner is seen wearing an American USAAF A-14 oxygen mask as he extinguishes a fire.

 

The storyline is about a U.S. submarine crew capturing an Enigma machine from a damaged U-Boat, in reality this didn't happen until late 1944 and post D-Day, the Royal Navy had captured one three years earlier in May 1941. 

 

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regards lewis.

 

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I am embarrassed to say that I never picked up on that (A-14 mask) until you pointed it out. Quite obvious, but so out of place that it “blended in” with the commotion at the time, I suppose. That movie contains more than its fair share of blunders and now, I need to go watch it again. Thanks. 

[RayRay]

The eagle has landed. All the us gis with m1 carbines with 30rd mags bayonet lugs and m1 garand web belts. 

[patches]

On 2/12/2021 at 4:51 PM, patches said:

 

From an earlier post here in this topic

 

Posted February 8, 2012

  J_Andrews said:

Around 1962 there was "Dark of the Sun" (approx title ?) set in the Congo (topical at the time) with Rod Taylor and Jim Brown as mercenaries. At the end their train is being strafed (by T-6s IIRC) and Jim Brown grits his teeth and heroically lays into them with a .50 cal Browning MG on a pintle mount.

 

There is no ammo can, just a short belt of maybe 10 rds of dummies (IIRC you can see the holes in the cases). But what the heck, nor is there any movement of the ammo belt, nor action movement, nor RECOIL, nor links dropping, nor muzzle blast. The only thing happening at the muzzle is a tiny lick of blue flame (propane?).

 

Posted patches February 8, 2012

In another example, of UNDER KILL, in the Fighting Seabees, the scene where Fred Mertz, gets killed by a Sniper, the Duke, spots the Nip, and lets loose with a long burst from his Thompson, the enemy sniper, is leaning forward on a berm, with just his head , shoulders, and arms,with his rifle in the firing position, he gets hit, and he just NODS OFF, yea LOL, that's what happens when a person get his most upper part of his body to include his head, hit by 6 or 7  45.cal bullets.

 

This is fun, anymore Hollywood weaponry high jinxs, Anyone else remember other blunders like these ?

  Here's a poster from this movie, it was in fact a 1968 movie 

 

Quite a lot of Pee being thrown at Rod Taylor Jim Brown and company, as   J_Andrews said, no ammo can is in his cradle  

 

And this Still right before Brown fires the 50 again no ammo can is in his cradle.

[lmrobil]

Kinda the opposite but recently watching either Bonanza or Gunsmoke and there was a fight scene where one of the characters was clearly using a Kabar of some type.

[RayRay]

The longest day… just saw a Paratrooper with the 82nd airborne. During the beginning of the movie when he’s behind the brick wall and he stands up after using the cricket and 101st is on the other side. The 82nd airborne paratrooper has an early model haversack on.

[General Apathy]

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Spotted on television series ' Little house on the Prairie '  . . . . . . .

 

I saw an image of Michael Landon wearing a pair of trouser suspenders ( familiar to me ) during the 1974 television series ' Little house on the prairie ', familiar to me as they were a pattern supplied to US Forces during WWII

 

in 2000 I supplied amongst other things bundles of WWII new old stock trouser suspenders ( three different materials ) to the series ' Band of Brothers ' and some of the bundles were identical to the pair worn by Michael Landon. 

 

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cheers lewis.

 

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[General Apathy]

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Series 2 Land Rover in McHales Navy episode . . . . . . . 

 

McHales Navy was an American series about WWII and made between 1962 and 1966, Land-Rovers didn't exist during WWII, the series 2 as seen in the photo began life in 1958.

 

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cheers lewis.

 

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[doyler]

On 11/10/2021 at 6:56 AM, General Apathy said:

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Spotted on television series ' Little house on the Prairie '  . . . . . . .

 

I saw an image of Michael Landon wearing a pair of trouser suspenders ( familiar to me ) during the 1974 television series ' Little house on the prairie ', familiar to me as they were a pattern supplied to US Forces during WWII

 

in 2000 I supplied amongst other things bundles of WWII new old stock trouser suspenders ( three different materials ) to the series ' Band of Brothers ' and some of the bundles were identical to the pair worn by Michael Landon. 

 

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cheers lewis.

 

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I see adjustment clips in the Landon still. Did the WW2 pattern have the same clips?

 

[General Apathy]

1 hour ago, doyler said:

 

 

I see adjustment clips in the Landon still. Did the WW2 pattern have the same clips?

 

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Hi Ron,  yes they do, Landon has his on almost full length, from the factory they were on the shortest length, if you look at the end of the white internal strap on the right hand side the edge of the buckle is just visible. It's 01h10 in the morning here I will reshoot the suspenders for you later today when I get back out of bed . . . . . . . . . .

 

cheers lewis.

 

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[Vanderbilt]

.......was watching an old comedy called "Hayseed". It was pre WW2. Noticed they were wearing the 1910-20's bandage pouch on their hip. No reason you couldn't just seemed odd.

[Salvage Sailor]

Surprised that this boner was not listed over the years....

 

I was re-watching 'The Thin Red Line' (remake) last week and in the scene where Private Witt (Jim Caviezel) runs from the patrol boat, the camera pans over a modern fiberglass surfboard.....

 

[Boy Howdy]

Maybe it fell off of the USS Nimitz during the Final Countdown? LOL

Merry Christmas!

[General Apathy]

On 12/18/2021 at 11:27 PM, doyler said:

 

 

I see adjustment clips in the Landon still. Did the WW2 pattern have the same clips?

 

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Hi Ron,  the suspenders finally re-emerged again today,  yes exactly the same adjustment clips in gun metal grey .

 

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regards lewis.

 

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[mikie]

On 12/18/2021 at 7:41 AM, General Apathy said:

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Series 2 Land Rover in McHales Navy episode . . . . . . . 

 

McHales Navy was an American series about WWII and made between 1962 and 1966, Land-Rovers didn't exist during WWII, the series 2 as seen in the photo began life in 1958.

 

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cheers lewis.

 

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One of my many favorite shows as a kid.  Yeah, I'm old enough to have watched it when originally broadcast.  

Mikie

[mikie]

On 12/18/2021 at 2:27 PM, doyler said:

 

 

I see adjustment clips in the Landon still. Did the WW2 pattern have the same clips?

 

 

37 minutes ago, General Apathy said:

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Hi Ron,  the suspenders finally re-emerged again today,  yes exactly the same adjustment clips in gun metal grey .

 

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regards lewis.

 

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Those just seem too snazzy to be a military item.  Anyone know the story on these?  The suspenders, I mean the suspense is killing me to find out.

Mikie

[General Apathy]

On 1/19/2022 at 7:17 PM, mikie said:

 

Those just seem too snazzy to be a military item.  Anyone know the story on these?  The suspenders, I mean the suspense is killing me to find out.

Mikie

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Hi Mikie,

 

I partially agree with you that these look pretty un-military in appearance, but during WWII allowances were made on some pieces of equipment regarding what materials were available to manufacture those pieces. 

 

What is fortunate for us in this post are the labels still connected to the styles / patterns of suspenders giving us an insight into the manufacturing at that time around 1943.

 

First off the three different style / patterns are all made by the same manufacturer ' Makegood Mfg. Co. N.Y. ', even though they have differences in materials the Stock numbers are all identical ' Stock No. 73-S-73000 ', all the three Spec numbers are identical ' Spec No. 247A '

 

So the first photo shows a ' Contract date of 7-7-43 ' tan webbing on most of the suspender with two short sections of elasticated material on the lower rear, all the ends are short leather tabs for connecting with the buttons on the trousers.

 

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The second photo with a ' Contract date 9-22-43 ' shows a different style of manufacturing, all elasticated material without any webbing straps, the front button attachments are different with long leather pieces and slotted button-holes at the bottom. 

 

 

The third photo reverts back to the same style of materials as in the first photo but in O.D. green in place of tan. The ' Contract Date 9-30-43 '

again there are only two short lengths of elasticated material at the rear, less decorative than in the first photo without the two detailing stripes.

( Note the two tabs either side of the label one is a green colour and one more brownish this is one the same set of suspenders, as are the two tabs on the suspender ends below the label, the white tabs are the unfinished undersides of the leather tabs )  

 

 

So for me an interesting look at the similarities and differences of one item ' Suspenders ' in the Quartermaster supply chain, now I don't have a set of Suspenders Mountain troops to hand, but the construction is similar to the web suspenders in the first and third photo but have metal loops in place of leather tabs for the buttons.  ( Edit :-  just thought about this photograph the mountain suspenders are not really posed for a photograph but the metal loops of the mountain suspenders are just visible to the left of the name Norman ). 

 

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regards Lewis. 

 

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[mikie]

8 minutes ago, General Apathy said:

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Hi Mikie,

 

I partially agree with you that these look pretty un-military in appearance, but during WWII allowances were made on some pieces of equipment regarding what materials were available to manufacture those pieces. 

 

What is fortunate for us in this post are the labels still connected to the styles / patterns of suspenders giving us an insight into the manufacturing at that time around 1943.

 

First off the three different style / patterns are all made by the same manufacturer ' Makegood Mfg. Co. N.Y. ', even though they have differences in materials the Stock numbers are all identical ' Stock No. 73-S-73000 ', all the three Spec numbers are identical ' Spec No. 247A '

 

So the first photo shows a ' Contract date of 7-7-43 ' tan webbing on most of the suspender with two short sections of elasticated material on the lower rear, all the ends are short leather tabs for connecting with the buttons on the trousers.

 

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The second photo with a ' Contract date 9-22-43 ' shows a different style of manufacturing, all elasticated material without any webbing straps, the front button attachments are different with long leather pieces and slotted button-holes at the bottom. 

 

 

The third photo reverts back to the same style of materials as in the first photo but in O.D. green in place of tan. The ' Contract Date 9-30-43 '

again there are only two short lengths of elasticated material at the rear, less decorative than in the first photo without the two detailing stripes.

( Note the two tabs either side of the label one is a green colour and one more brownish this is one the same set of suspenders, as are the two tabs on the suspender ends below the label, the white tabs are the unfinished undersides of the leather tabs )  

 

 

So for me an interesting look at the similarities and differences of one item ' Suspenders ' in the Quartermaster supply chain, now I don't have a set of Suspenders Mountain troops to hand, but the construction is similar to the web suspenders in the first and third photo but have metal loops in place of leather tabs for the buttons.  

 

regards Lewis. 

 

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All very interesting, Ken.  I guess its possible that with such an item, making the quantities needed was more important that meeting a manufacturing spec, whatever this one happened to call out.  An army can't easily fight with their pants falling down. 

Mikie 

[Salvage Sailor]

Script Error:  The film 'Hannibal Brooks' is about US & UK POW's captured in Italy and held in the Summer of 1944

 

Line:  "You think this is the sands of Iwo Jima?"

[USMC_COLLECTOR]

Goof in "Rescue Dawn"

One of the Vietnamese who captures our hero is seen wearing woodland camo BDU pants...

Not to mention it takes place in around 1965...

[Linedoggie]

On 4/17/2021 at 8:18 AM, General Apathy said:

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U-571 film ( 2000 )

 

within the first five minutes of this film a German submariner is seen wearing an American USAAF A-14 oxygen mask as he extinguishes a fire.

 

The storyline is about a U.S. submarine crew capturing an Enigma machine from a damaged U-Boat, in reality this didn't happen until late 1944 and post D-Day, the Royal Navy had captured one three years earlier in May 1941. 

 

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regards lewis.

 

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First things I noticed were the model 1928A1Thompsons fitted with a M1A1 carbine folding stocks

 

 

[Linedoggie]

On 7/21/2021 at 10:23 PM, patches said:

  Here's a poster from this movie, it was in fact a 1968 movie 

 

Quite a lot of Pee being thrown at Rod Taylor Jim Brown and company, as   J_Andrews said, no ammo can is in his cradle  

 

And this Still right before Brown fires the 50 again no ammo can is in his cradle.

Peter Carsten , Great in Zeppelin, 08/15

[patches]

5 hours ago, Linedoggie said:

Peter Carsten , Great in Zeppelin, 08/15

As 

[USMC_COLLECTOR]

Not a goof, but I was an extra in a small budget film just barely. I noticed how hard it is to keep 100% accuracy with everything you have. Especially when you start running out of uniforms and gear. Just a small note I wanted to make. Can’t imagine being the costume guy on a large Hollywood film.