CPT Embry names Connors as the tail gunner, but when he goes around the aircraft, there is no tail gunner position, only a plexiglass window in the tail.
The shape of the B-25's top gun turret is completely different from the turrets actually used on these bombers.
Military personnel stationed in desert climates would not be wearing dark uniforms but a light khaki tan.
The tail number painted on the B-25 is 42-32359, but it should have been written as 232359.
Before Captain Embry awakens in the hospital, the doctors recap his stellar service record which includes mentioning his 36 total missions flown. The maximum number of missions for crews later in WWII was capped at 30, up from 25 initially due to attrition and an increase of targets. Embry would have been discharged from combat well before this mission.
The captain incorrectly pronounces the name of one of his crew, Jimenez, as "Jim-in-ez" instead of "He-men-ez". Explanation: It was very common in the 1960s, and the decades prior to it, for Hispanic names to be Anglicized. In many cases it was a simple mispronunciation of the spelling of the name, while in others it was a deliberate choice of the name owner in order to 'fit in'.
When the Captain names the crew and their assigned tasks, he does not mention a bombardier, a vital crew member on a medium bomber.
Captain Embry mentions the name of his plane's waist gunner, but his B-25 is an earlier model without a waist gun position.
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