Factual error: Season 3, "To Seek and Destroy": Though the dialog throughout makes reference to the launch of a V-1 rocket, the stock footage shown is of a V-2. (00:05:00)
Jean G
1st Aug 2012
12 O'Clock High (1964)
1st Aug 2012
12 O'Clock High (1964)
Factual error: Season 3, "To Seek and Destroy": It's supposedly 1944, but the German agents are pursuing the Americans in a Renault Dauphin manufactured in the 1960s. (00:41:30)
23rd May 2011
12 O'Clock High (1964)
Factual error: It's an error that plagued many episodes, but here again, the flight jackets hanging behind the bomber pilots have 50-star flag patches on the shoulders. (00:30:25)
19th May 2011
12 O'Clock High (1964)
Factual error: Alice says she wants to thank "The U.S. Air Force." There was no such entity during WWII. What later became the USAF was then known as the U.S. Army Air Corps. (00:23:20)
5th Apr 2011
12 O'Clock High (1964)
Factual error: The Russian church has Latin crosses inside and out. It should have the more ornate Orthodox crosses, which are quite different in design.
8th Sep 2010
12 O'Clock High (1964)
Show Me a Hero, I'll Show You a Bum - S2-E7
Factual error: The 1943 London air field is crowded with P-51 Mustangs - planes that weren't introduced in Europe until 1944.
8th Sep 2010
12 O'Clock High (1964)
Show Me a Hero, I'll Show You a Bum - S2-E7
Factual error: It's 1943, but Kamanski's flight jacket sports a 50-star flag. The flag should, of course, have 48 stars.
24th Dec 2009
12 O'Clock High (1964)
Factual error: The sea plane that lands to rescue Savage at the end is a type not built until after the war. And it's marked "U.S. Air Force," an entity that also didn't exist until after the war. During WWII, what later became the Air Force was known as the U.S. Army Air Corps.
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