Goofs

When Easy Company is eating their spaghetti lunch, we can see that outside it is raining. In the next scene while running up Currahee, the ground is dry, showing no sign of the previous rain storm.

The two times Lt. Meehan is telling Easy Company that the invasion has been postponed, his tone of voice and hand movements are different both times, when they are supposed to be the same moment.

Pvt. Christensen's machine gun switches from left to right shoulders when Capt. Sobel confronts him about disobeying orders on a night march.

When Capt. Sobel addresses private Christenson in the scene of "Canteens out and opened", not only does the machine gun change between right and left shoulders, but the rain drops appear and disappear on Christenson's helmet between shots.

When Lt Sobel orders pvt. Gordon to run up the hill, he is seen running up the hill with no-one behind him for a very long way. All of a sudden three more soldiers show up at his side.

David Webster (played by Eion Bailey) is shown running Currahee and undergoing jump training with E Company. But Webster, while an original Toccoa man and member of the 506th PIR, was originally with Headquarters Company, and it was with HQ that he underwent training and jumped into Normandy; it was after the D-Day invasion (and thus not within the timeline of the episode) that he transferred to Easy, where he remained until the end of the war.

While Easy Co. was in Aldbourne, it shows that they have their names on a white strip on their jackets. This never happened. They only did it during their training phase in the states.

At the start Nixon says "its 5 o'clock in New York, 4 o'clock in Chicago, happy hour." That means it would be 10pm in England, but it is clearly daylight.

When Easy Company is doing their qualifying jumps, they are shown jumping out of a C-47. The aircraft is marked with the national insignia with the red circle in the center. This insignia was changed in May 1942 so the 'red ball' would not be confused with the Japanese aircraft markings. Easy Company went through jump training in Dec 1943.

Near the end of episode #1 when the planes are seen taking off for Operation Overlord, we can see contrails in the sky. Contrails are created by propeller-driven aircraft as easily as by jets, as a function of altitude and air temperature.

When the transports take off to deliver the paratroopers over Normandy, it's broad daylight. But they didn't take off till 2200, 10 PM, by which time, the sun would have set and it would be dark.

Numerous times during the first episode "Currahee", Lieutenant Sobel demands that Easy Company runs up Currahee mountain in 15 minutes. They describe it as "3 miles up, 3 miles back". The company could not make it up a mountain one way in 15 minutes, they would have to average 5:00 per mile.

When Pvt. White is being asked why he's not in his PT Gear, he's shown putting his head down and refusing to answer. But it is clear that the shot has been reversed in post-production due to the way he blinks and how sudden he puts his head down.

During "Curahee" in the scene where Easy Co. is receiving a lecture, there are various German weapons on the wall. One of them is an Stg 44, not used in combat until 1944. Thus, it is impossible that the Americans had captured one in 1942-43.

As the first C-47 takes off toward France, you can see the pilot is wearing a modern light green plastic headset instead of the black rubber ear-cup type of that era.

Lt. Sobel examines the "rusty bayonet" of Liebgott. This was 1942, the bayonet was a Model M1. This bayonet was not manufactured until after March 1943. It had a ten inch blade. The bayonets that should have been used in 1942, were the Model 1905 or the 1905/42 both of which had 16 inch blades. After March of '43, all the long Garand bayonets were ordered to be cut down to ten inches and became the 1905E-1 and new 10 inch bayonets (the M1 bayonet) were manufactured for the rest of the war.

(at around 7 mins) In the mess hall scene, when they are eating the "Army noodles with ketchup." You can see a vintage Coca Cola machine in the background between the tables. The coke machine is unmistakably a Vendo 39, stand up coin operated vending machine, which was not manufactured until 1949.

Around 1:07:10 when the first C-47 is taking off, the pilot is wearing a modern style light green head set.

During the last scene of 'Currahee' Richard Winters is supposedly sitting in the door of his C-47, looking down at the invasion convoys as they steam towards Normandy. However, the planes carrying the two American airborne divisions circled the Cotentin peninsula and came in from the west, low, to achieve surprise, and thus would not have overflown the convoys.

When Luz is imitating Maj. Horton to fool Capt. Sobel, the boom mike is reflected in the wet helmets.

After the confrontation between Sobel, Winters and Nixon over the "stolen" peaches, Nixon and Winters salute Sobel, which he returns. Salutes are not rendered indoors in the US military except on first meeting.

When using Cockney rhyming slang (when his Luger pistol is taken), one character says, "Hey mate, you are having a bath if you think you are half-inching that."

No Cockney would use this expression. "Half-inching" is used correctly, however, even though 'bubble bath' may sometimes used in place of 'laugh', for one thing if it was it would be shortened to bubble, not bath.

And even then, neither 'bath' nor 'bubble' would be used. The more common expression would be simply, "You are having a laugh."