It seemed to me that the two German planes attacked their own (German) convoy in one scene. It happened right after the two planes had attacked the U.S. troops on the beach. Was there really such a scene? Or was I mistaken? It seems very strange. If there really was such a scene, then I would like to know if that scene was based on actual facts.
shareThey were allied planes possibly hawker typhoons going by the markings on the wings. Could have been a different allied plane though.
shareThey were not the same two planes. The two planes strafing the US troops on the beach were German planes led by Josef "Pips" Priller. It was historically true that the Germans had only two fighters on the entire Normandy Front. The two planes that strafed the Germans in the scene that wounded the German officer (played by Hans Christian Blech) were British planes - very likely meant to represent Hawker Typhoon fighter-bombers as the poster above me said.
shareyes, the "invasion stripes" on the british planes bear this out.
shareThe two planes that attacked the Germans may have been British-made but they were clearly identified (or at least the pilots were) as French.
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