This might already be common knowledge, but has anyone else ever noticed the use of a “WT” M1 Bayonet in Band of Brothers Episode 5?

  See screen shots below from right around the 38:37 mark of the ‘Crossroads’ episode.
  
 Also shows Greek numbering on guard so I guess you can add that to the list of ‘inaccuracies’…

Band of Brothers is one on my favorite WWII "movies".  When I first watched it, I saw a close up of a cut down M1 used in boot camp in 1942, when they should have been using either the Model of 1905, or the "new"  M1905/42....certainly not any version of the M1.

  

I had not seen the WT M1bayonet with the Greek number markings.  That's a great catch.  It's fun to find these gems of incongruities. 

 

There was a long form series a few years back. I think it was called "The World Wars"  The mistake I found there was absolutely laughable.  It shows a young Hitler during WWI admiring a 1903 Springfield which was bad enough, but it also had a 1905 bayonet with a FIBERGLASS scabbard!

Hi,

 

It’s always interesting to see props repurposed for movies—at least it’s a change from equipment designed specifically for films. In addition, aluminum M1 bayonets were manufactured for *BoB*.

Good point—too bad about the Greek markings.

 

Another example :

*The Enemies* (*De vijanden*), a Belgian-Dutch film directed by Hugo Claus in 1968.

A German soldier carrying an SAFN 49.

In this film, the weapons and uniforms are all over the place. GI's with Mausers, not K98ks...