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On Omaha Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944 -- 0630 Hours
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In A Village
[00:55:15 into the movie]

• When Caparzo is dead in the water after being shot by the sniper, the captain removes his dog tags before they move on. Caparzo already removed the dog tags from his neck and gave them to the little girl.. 3-4 seconds later, his dog tags are on the chain hanging in the girl's hand, he is shot and drops away from the girl. Unless it was common to wear 2 separate chains, this is an error. C O M A
• In the Dog Tag Scene the group set down around a green wooden box to count the Dog Tag's. Directly before they start to count you can see that one of them kicks a smaller wooden box of the bigger green box to sit down on this box. But one scene before there is no smaller box placed on the big green box. Regards from Germany - Markus
• Caparzo was not killed as someone suggested during the bunker scene. He was killed by the German sniper when they (the squad, Capt. Miller + 7 men) entered the first town. The guy killed during the bunker, i.e. the bombed out radar station, was a medic called Wade, though it was right about the field shot; there should have been 7 men (including Miller) after Caparzo was killed but 8 were shown. Both scenes might have come from the same pending shot and some Editing Dummy apparently had forgotten that they would not match the story. W.K. Chung
• In the village, how probable is it that a French family is left behind? Was it common for German and allied troops to come across towns-people? Most of the Panzer crew accounts I read about, talk about totally abandoned villages on the western front, some untouched. Andersbjorn
• In the "Dog Tag Scene" at the rally point, right after Jackson says "where is the son of a bitch" the camera pulls back looking at one  of the other soldiers looking through the dog tags, a woman suddenly appears to be walking casually from way behind the soldier, you don't see her walking up to the soldier.  If she is part of the movie, her black jacket, beige skirt or pants and a belt for the jacket, and shoulder length brown hair are definitely out of place. Thomas A. Zanetti 
• When the team is looking at the dog tags for Ryan in the camp with airborne walking by, a bug eyed brown haired soldier stares at them. A couple of seconds later, when Hanks is yelling for Ryan, the same soldier walks by behind him and stares at him again. I guess he didn't stare enough the first time. Anonymous
• The first town Miller's group goes to is "Neuville" -- which I am presuming was Neuville-au-plain, a town a couple kilometers north of St. Mere Eglise and on the far northern flank of the American front. Neuville is an awful long way to go from Omaha (which was the southern part of the American front) on foot, though enemy lines, etc. Furthermore, Neuville was in the 82nd's sector, and was held on and off by the 82nd.  While there were certainly mixed units all over, all of the troopers holding Neuville in the movie were 101st guys. Riddiford