Flags of Our Fathers

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• Movie Goof (revealing mistake): After planting the flag, the unit is attacked by a couple of Japanese while waiting on the mountain top. The standing soldier's bayonet can been seen flexing back and forth as he moves his gun. Clearly it's a black rubber prop bayonet.
• Movie Goof (anachronisms): When Ira Hayes leaves on the train, the modern rubber warning material (used to warn blind pedestrians that they are approaching the edge) are visible, although painted gray. These are modern (post 1990) innovations.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): In the train scene were Keyes Beech offers a toast, John "Doc" Bradley refers to Beech as "sir." Beech, wearing the rank of Gunnery Sergeant, would never have been referred to as "sir," a title given only to officers. Instead, Beech would have been called "Gunny."
• Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Lt Gen Smith is on the phone just prior to the invasion, he references "scrambled eggs" upon their chest. Scrambled eggs is a term for the gold oak leaf branches field grade officers wear on their covers (hats). Fruit salad is a term used to describe the ribbons worn above the left breast pocket on the service and dress uniforms.