Episode Quotes

Mistakes/Goofs

• Goof (miscellaneous): Lipton runs past Eugene Roe saying "Its gonna get busy, buddy,". A fly can be seen crawling on top of Roe's helmet despite the freezing winter cold.
• Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the discussion between Doc Roe and Renée they first address each other with the formal and polite second person plural 'vous'. When they ask each others names Doc Roe shifts to using the informal first person singular 'tu' and 'toi'. When Doc Roe departs Renée speaks to him as 'vous' again. This would be unusual between two young people, who are on friendly terms with each other, and have already told their first names to each other.
• Goof (revealing mistake): In one of the scenes with snow coming down in Bastogne, one of the soldiers has a fly on his helmet. Hardly likely in such frigid temperatures.
• Goof (revealing mistake): At the end when Doc Roe is returning and gives 'Babe' Heffron the bandage on his hand, he has a shadow on either side. The shadows are visible in the second shot in the woods just before he passes the two men talking and Winters' foxhole.
• Goof (revealing mistake): When Doc Roe is waiting to speak to the Major he looks away several times and you can clearly see the "whitening" make-up used to make him look sickly ends exactly at the collar line on his neck.

Trivia

• The Belgian town of Bastogne was of huge strategic importance to the Allieds and their supply routes. The town had seven roads leading in and seven leading out. The Germans were fully aware of this and that's why it was one of the focal points of the Nazi counter-offensive against the invading forces.
• A huge tactical mistake the German's made on Bastogne was when they would make an attack, they would attack at only one place and with small forces, usually company sizes. They also had no idea that the Americans had little or no ammo left for their rifles and artillery pieces. Had they known this, they could have easily run over this position.