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Objective, Burma! (1945) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Capt Nelson switches back and forth from carrying an M1 carbine to a Thompson submachine gun.
  
  
• Continuity: Capt Nelson is carrying a carbine with the stock folded, but during the fight in the village when the scene switches to show him firing the carbine the stock is extended (unfolded). The next scene in which he appears, the stock is folded.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: One of the "dead" Japanese soldiers of the Japanese Radar/Radio installation lying on the ground flops his left foot from a heel outward position, away from his body, (which must have been real uncomfortable) to heel inward.
  
  

• Factual errors: In all aerial scenes, the US transports used are C47's. In a takeoff scene about one third into the film, the transports shown are C46's.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: As Capt. Nelson gathers and speaks to his men in a clearing after temporarily escaping the enemy at the pickup airfield, a tree in the distant background suddenly falls over and disappears.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the Japanese radar station, the operator is plainly seen sitting physically on the antenna. This would never have happened for a multitude of reasons - not the least of which would have been the RF radiation being emitted from the radar transmitter itself... The "operator" would have been fried.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scenes with the Japanese reacting to the destruction of the radar station, the spoken dialogue is obviously overdubbed and out of sync.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Captain Nelson orders the supply sergeant to issue correspondent Mark Williams "everything from soup to nuts, complete jump outfit," the sergeant, in addition to a correct paratrooper's chest-mounted reserve parachute, plops a fighter pilot's ripcord-activated seat pack parachute on the table, not the proper, static line-activated backpack parachute used by paratroopers.
  
  
• Factual errors: One of the medium machine guns used is not US Army standard issue, feeding from the right side like a British Vickers. Also this machine gun seems to change places freely with a more accurate M1919 model throughout the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: Nelson helps Williams attach his static line. The direction of the hook changes in Nelson's hand as he does this.
  
  
• Continuity: As Nelson briefs Williams on the jump, the static line alternates between loose and taut.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the retreat action sequence, after the firefight in the swamp, the machine gun is picked up by the barrel.
  
  
• Continuity: When the company gets to the top of the hill, Nelson is carrying the machine gun, which alternates between top-up and bottom-up.
  
  
• Continuity: On the top of the hill, the pattern of the hole in the netting on Nelson's helmet changes between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the hilltop supply drop, the support wire from fuselage to tail on the camera plane is visible.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: Following the fight at the Burmese village where Soapy Higgins is killed, the survivors are crossing a swamp after missing the third search plane and Soapy Higgins is in the group right after Nebraska.
  
  

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