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The landing craft used included twelve actual World War II examples, 10 LCVPs and 2 LCMs, standing in for the British LCAs that the Ranger Companies rode in to the beach during Operation Overlord.

The film-makers used underwater cameras to better depict soldiers being hit by bullets in the water.

Forty barrels of fake blood were used to simulate the effect of blood in the seawater.

This degree of realism was more difficult to achieve when depicting World War II German armored vehicles, as few examples survive in operating condition.

The Tiger I tanks in the film were copies built on the chassis of old, but functional Soviet T-34 tanks.

The two vehicles described in the film as Panzers were meant to portray Marder III tank destroyers.

One was created for the film using the chassis of a Czech-built Panzer 38 ( t ) tank similar to the construction of the original Marder III ; the other was a cosmetically modified Swedish SAV m / 43 assault gun, which also used the 38 ( t ) chassis.