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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Hammarskjöld's plane crashed the day after the siege ended.
** And the fighter that lines up behind his plane is an American F-4 Phantom II which had only started deploying with the US Navy in Virginia two months earlier.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Bill Ready switches to a Bren Gun, an open bolt machine gun with iron sights, to shoot the Man in White, rather than use his Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk I (T) modified for the purpose, likely a reference to the Bren's "too accurate" myth. At that range, the front sight would be larger than the target. Ian from ''WebVideo/ForgottenWeapons''
[[https://youtu.be/i75o0F6PY9k?si=oSKOJdYh4gk3oicp explains why it's nonsense.]]

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Hammarskjöld's plane crashed the day after the siege ended.
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ended. And the fighter that lines up behind his plane is an American F-4 Phantom II which had only started deploying with the US Navy in Virginia two months earlier.
** A Company had two armoured cars during the siege, which were instrumental to holding the line. They are nowhere to be found in the film (the closest analog could be Sgt. Pendergast firing a Vickers from the Jeep).
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Bill Ready switches to a Bren Gun, an open bolt machine gun with iron sights, to shoot the Man in White, rather than use his Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk I (T) modified for the purpose, likely a reference to the Bren's "too accurate" myth. At that range, the front sight would be larger than the target. Ian from ''WebVideo/ForgottenWeapons''
''WebVideo/ForgottenWeapons'' [[https://youtu.be/i75o0F6PY9k?si=oSKOJdYh4gk3oicp explains why it's nonsense.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Bill Ready switches to a Bren Gun, an open bolt machine gun with iron sights, to shoot the Man in White, rather than use his Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk I (T) modified for the purpose, likely a reference to the Bren's "too accurate" myth. At that range, the front sight would be larger than the target. Ian from ''WebVideo/ForgottenWeapons''
[[https://youtu.be/i75o0F6PY9k?si=oSKOJdYh4gk3oicp explains why it's nonsense.]]
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* ImpromptuFortress: The Irish UN peacekeepers set up camp in a derelict compound located in the middle of a barren plain. It is only thanks to Commandant Pat Quinlan's know-how of siegecraft that the compound is transformed into a deadly bulwark that manages - at least for a time - to withstand a massive assault of a superior number of better equipped mercenaries supported by artillery and aircraft.
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** And the fighter that lines up behind his plane is an American F-4 Phantom II which had only started deploying with the US Navy in Virginia two months earlier.

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