Technical oversights *spoiler warning*

Some major oversights about the technical accuracy of Windtalkers:

Though they did fight in battle, the code talkers did not engage nearly as much as the movie depicted. Some were brought to the front lines, but were protected and encouraged not to engage.

Would a Japanese radio be labeled with the same frequencies as the American radios? The numbers weren't even in Japanese.

One scene shows Cage pulling the pin on a hand grenade ( I think it's the scenes where he blows up Whitehorse). With the handle engaged, the internal fuse on the genade begins to burn while he is holding and looking at the grenade. The fuse shoudl not begin to burn until the handle is released. Approx 4-7 seconds later the grenade will explode.

Hand grenades don't explode with the fiery explosion as depicted in this movie. A hand grenade explosion is mostly smoke and metal fragments. Many in this movie were depicted with a large (20 ft. high) fireball.

Throughout the movie, the wrong U.S. flags are depicted. On the maps depicting troop movement and on the full screen when we're about to see Ben Yahzee leave home, 50-star flags are depicted rather 48-star as they should have had for World War II.

In the film Sergeant Joe Enders, Sergeant Ox Henderson and Gunny Hjelmstad are all shown with their rank chevron patches on their left sleeve only. However, the Marine Corps wore their rank chevrons on both sleeves during World War Two.

All the Japanese flags in Windtalkers are wrong. The filmmakers used the present-day flags which are all white with a large red circle representing the sun in the middle. During World War II, the flags had 'sunrays' radiating out from the circle.

This is way too many obvious mistakes for a wide release movie. Woo was obviously more interested in the next large explosion than he was in the film's accuracy.