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  • Channel Hop: While Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' first two World War II miniseries aired on HBO, this one is an Apple TV+ original series. It was originally developed at HBO, before the network ultimately decided not to move forward with it.
  • Dead Star Walking: After Callum Turner and Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan has had the most prominent role in the advertising. His character only lasts until episode 3, killed to demonstrate how lethal the Schweinfurt raid was for the 100th.
  • Fake American: Englishmen Callum Turner, Stephen Campbell Moore and James Murray, and Irishmen Anthony Boyle and Barry Keoghan, as American airmen.
  • Irony as She Is Cast: Lt. Curtis Biddick is an Irish-American who continually boasts about his ethnic background, all the while British citizens tell him he's not actually Irish due to being born and raised in America. He's played by Barry Keoghan, who was born and raised in Ireland.

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