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On Omaha Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944 -- 0630 Hours
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At the Farm House
[00:30:40 into the movie]

• When Mrs. Ryan is doing the dishes and sees the army car drive up in front of the house,  the brief scene when she walks into the parlor you see a phone hanging on the wall. This is a critical error  because phones were not able to be hung on the wall and phone jacks were not designed yet until the late 40's or early 50's. Rittmeister14
• I'm sure the great people from Iowa saw the fields of TALL, GOLDEN corn, which can only mean one thing - Harvest time.  Corn in June is lucky to be 6 inches high.  As Socrates once said, "Knee high by the 4th of July!" - Just kidding - Schultz
• If you have the video with the bonus footage tape, you'll notice how Stephen Ambrose says that letters were brought by a boy on a bike. In the movie the General and a Priest go to the house, not a boy on a bike. Marksmenmd
• [Reply to Marksmenmd: He is right. In the scene in the movie when the priest and the general go to the house of the Ryan's, that's fine also. If you lost THREE sons in a war, would you want a boy on a bike or a general of the United States Army telling you that he is sorry for your loss? M Joannes]
• About the pictures in the Ryan family house, no one said that the four in the pictures were the brothers. If you notice the four stars in the window (when the mom is doing dishes), those stars mean that four people were already killed. The people represented by the stars could have been the ones in the picture. Marksmenmd
• [Reply to Marksmenmn: The thing hanging in the window with the four blue stars means that there are four people from that household fighting in the war. If someone is killed the blue star is replaced by a gold one. M Joannes]
• [Reply to Marksmenmn: The four stars in the window of the Ryan home does not mean that  the boys had already been killed. Blue stars meant they were still alive. When a soldier was killed, the blue was replaced with gold. Maryann Jones]
• At the Ryan House there is a picture that appears to be a picture of the four of them in army uniforms on mother's dresser. When James Ryan (Matt Damon) tells the story of his brothers and the hay loft, he ends it by saying his brother was off to basic training the next day and that was the last time they were all together. So when was the picture taken? Anonymous
• [Reply: One of the officers talking to General Marshall early in the movie says that the four Ryan brothers were all in the same company until the Sullivan brothers incident. This means that a photo of the four of them could have been taken while they were still in the same company, but this also means that James Ryan's statement is still incorrect. J. McCarney