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Season 1 Episode 10: Points
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Trivia: In real life, Dick Winters kept the pistol given to him by the surrendering German officer. He noticed that it had never been fired through six years of war. He still owns the pistol and it has still never been fired. He shows it to the camera in the HBO documentary We Stand Alone Together.
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Season 1 Episode 9: Why We Fight
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Trivia: Nixon and Winters are talking strategy and someone interrupts and says that the US president is dead. Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 12 April 1945.
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Goof: A title card shows the date as 11 April 1945 when Capt. Nixon advises a group of Easy Company that Hitler is dead. Hitler didn't commit suicide until 30 April 1945.
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Season 1 Episode 8: The Last Patrol
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Goof: Don Malarkey has the stripes of a staff sergeant in the morning, but wears the stripes of a sergeant first class as the men prepare for the patrol.
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Goof: As Lt. Jones arrives in Hagenau he carries a carbine. At the debriefing after the patrol he has a Thompson. He carries no ammo for it, but a belt with carbine ammo. When he leaves Easy he has the carbine again.
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Season 1 Episode 7: The Breaking Point
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Goof: The ground is soft when they are digging foxholes in the winter episodes, though it supposed to be frozen.
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Season 1 Episode 5: Crossroads
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Goof: The British para commander is referred to as a brigadier-general and is wearing a general officer's cap badge. There has been no such rank in the British Army since the 1920s. The equivalent, brigadier, is not a general officer and wears a different cap badge.
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Season 1 Episode 4: Replacements
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Goof: Sgt. Randleman's NCO bar on the back of his M1 helmet disappears while in the gully of the road on the outskirts of Eindhoven. It then reappears when the Company enters Eindhoven.
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Goof: Les Hashey sees a medic shot by a German in the left leg, though the medic is holding his right leg the next time he is seen and his left leg is in fine shape.
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Season 1 Episode 3: Carentan
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Goof: The episode states that Albert Blithe died of his wounds in 1948. Blithe actually surivived his injury and would remain in active service with the Army until his death in 1967.
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Goof: When the troops enter the city of Carentan, they're being attacked by a German M42 from a window and fire back. During this exchange, bullet-holes appear and disappear on the advertisement-sign attached to the house.
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Season 1 Episode 2: Day of Days
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When Winters drops the potato masher in the first 105mm gun's barrel, he doesn't pull the pin out. You can see him pull on it but when the grenade drops into the barrel the pin is still attached.
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Season 1 Episode 1: Currahee
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Nitpick: When Luz is imitating Maj. Horton to fool Capt. Sobel, a boom microphone is reflected in the wet helmets.
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Nitpick: Throughout the series they salute each other, something which is not done in the airborne divisions.
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