When he is saying 'chance' the camera changes angles and the soldier who was yelling is facing the seawall and not even talking, even though 'and that ain't fair' is still being said. Right after that, the soldier behind Miller with the BAR leans up on him and shouts 'they're killing us because we don't have a f***ing chance and that ain't fair'. When the soldiers are at the seawall during the D-Day scene Miller explains to Horvath that Dog 1 exit is to the west. His line carries over to the next shot of Miller unwrapping his Thompson, but we can see that soldier behind Miller, and he's not talking.ĭuring the battle of Ramelle, Private Jackson aims his rifle (at his own men) and although a gunshot sound effect is heard, his rifle does not recoil or flash.ĭuring the opening Omaha landing scene, the coxswain of the boat says, 'Clear the ramp, 30 seconds! God be with ya!' The last two words, 'with ya', are clearly not synchronized with his lips. puts his arm around Captain Miller's neck and says they don't have a chance. Likewise, when the shot cuts to Reiben firing a single shot from his BAR, it is given the sound of a burst from Captain Miller's Thompson. Miller's Thompson briefly has the sound of Reiben's BAR. In one scene, Miller, Ryan and Reiben are firing their weapons at the German 20mm cannon the first shot of this shows an over the shoulder view from Captain Miller. After Henderson fires through the wall, then returning fire hits him, Mellish fires two shots through the wall before charging the German soldier in the doorway. Mellish are firing through a hole in the wall of a room at advancing German soldiers.

Only the M1 Garand 'pings'.ĭuring the Ramelle battle, Cpl. When he shoots the last round, his rifle 'pings'. When the Americans are defending the bridge, there's a scene where the guy with the M1 carbine is shooting his rifle. But this sort of numbers' attribution on French cars began in 1950 number 241 BG 50 must have been given in year 1954. In Neuville town, there is a car whose license plate number is 241 BG 50, where 50 is for French département of the Manche. Not only would you not have ammunition, their bulk would limit what would go onto the boats. No army would be invading a heavily held enemy position with empty ammo cans. The only way this would be is if the ammo cans were empty. This, plus how high they sat in the water indicate a high buoyancy. The commonwealth forces called the American M4 Medium tank a Sherman, and the commonwealth names for American tanks were NOT adopted by the American forces during WWII.Īn American officer of the time would say they knocked out 3 medium tanks, or similar.įollowing the invasion, ammo boxes are shown being pushed by the waves. Americans did not call the M4 Medium tank a Sherman until post war. The motorcycle/sidecar combo Miller rests on is a 1963 Ural M63.Ĭaptain Miller makes reference to '88s knocking out Sherman tanks. The decision to split the map at the International Date line wasn't officially made until the National Geographic Society decreed it in 1988. Mercator Projections in 1944 would have placed North America in the center and divided the Eurasian continent equally on both sides. When the Captain in charge of the typing pool brings the three Ryan telegrams to his Colonel, the map behind the Colonel is a Mercator Projection of the world, split at the International Date Line. The hair styles were usually longer on top and shaved on the side.

The 'shaven' haircuts of the German soldiers in the movie are not typical of the day. The 'Clear up/Clear down' call was not in use during the Second World War. This group did not receive P-51s until the end of 1944. P-51s at end of movie have black and white checkered pattern on nose showing them to be from the 78th Fighter Group. The Army didn't start using black leather for boots until the 1950s. All Army paratroopers in WWII were issued brown jump boots. Some of the paratroopers are shown wearing black jump boots.

P51 tank buster