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  • Errors in geography: Mountains are shown around Galveston, Texas. Galveston is on an island and there are no mountains around the Texas coastline.

  • Continuity: When Gene Hackman's character arrives to pick up the weapons and the police officer tells him that the guns will be confiscated, during two shots we see the truck driving off behind him.

  • Factual errors: The Huey helicopters flown during the rescue mission were supposedly ones left by the US military. However, they are Bell model 212 (military model UH-1N) and were never used in Vietnam.

  • Errors in geography: While in the destroyed village, Johnson explains that Ypres is a town in France where mustard gas was used for the first time by the Germans. Ypres is actually in neighboring Belgium.

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