Another mistake of the movie..

eh.....?

I think it's great that you have read up on the actual history, but you must also be aware that this is a movie, and, as such, it is open for cinematic dismembering of time, events, characters, etc. This is not only common in real life history but also in novels. We both know that it's impossible to fit entire lives and careers of characters into a 120 minute window and expect to capture everything while maintaining it's flow.

I watched a documentary about Brashear, and while he didnt mention anything about the Soviet sub or multiple missiles, he did say, in his own words, that he was responsible for finding one of the nukes.

I haven't posted on this movie before. So, if this has been mentioned time and time again, I apologize. I checked the goofs section first to make sure it hasn't been mentioned there and it wasn't (I submitted it, so it will be now).

Anyway, Sunday mentions that he got MacArthur's corncob pipe from a bet he had with the general when the ship was sinking. Mac allegedly bet him (via ship's intercom) he couldn't hold his breath the four minutes it would take him to swim out. Sunday retorted it would take five minutes, and did so.

A pretty story, but it won't wash. The St. Lo was a small escort (or jeep) carrier in the small task force Taffy-3 far from the beaches on Leyte island. Not only would the Supreme commander of the whole PTO not be on such a small hardly-protected ship so far away from the invasion battle at such a crucial time, but in point of fact he wasn't. MacArthur stepped ashore on Leyte on October 20, 1944 . The St' Lo was sunk on October 25, 1944. He simply wasn't there.

TNSTAAFL

"When a b-52 crashed in palomares"spain",cuba "character"didnt fin the bomb,the missed bomb was located by a local fishermen,who was feared by the thing hooked in his net...its a serious mistake... "

Let's see, what facts did you get right?

It was a B-52.
There was a missing bomb.
The crash site involved Palomares, Spain.
There was a local fisherman who had something to do with the recovery of the bomb.

But there was no fishing net involved. Francisco Simo-Orts, the fisherman, didn't recover the bomb. What he did was see where the bomb fell. This led to the recovery of the bomb by the U.S. Navy (although not necessarily by the real Carl Brashear as shown in the film) from the bottom of the ocean.