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* [[General Failure]] - the Germans have to ask Hitler for permission to use the 21st Panzer Division in a counterattack, and no-one dares wake him up.
* [[Heroic BSOD]] - That horrified look on paratrooper John Steele's face as he dangles from the St. Mere Eglise church belltower...
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] - Besides the ones mentioned below, there's Red Buttons, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Fabian, Robert Wagner, Richard Dawson...
** Also cartoonist and comedian [[Loriot]] in an uncredited bit part as a German staff officer.
** Two German actors were future [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] villains:
*** Gert Fröbe -- best known for playing the title roll in ''[[Goldfinger]]'' -- as the German soldier who rides the donkey to the beach every morning.
*** Curd Jürgens (credited here as Curt Jürgens) -- who played Karl Stromberg in ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]'' -- as Major General Gunther Blumentritt.
*** The first [[James Bond]] himself, Sean Connery, is one of the soldiers landing on the beach.
* [[Hollywood Nuns]] - At Ouistreham, a group of French nuns walk into the hotel where the French commandos are fighting from to tend to their wounded. This did not happen in real life.
* [[Ironic Echo]] - the [[La Résistance|Resistance]] code phrase, "Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor," gets repeated by Gen. Blumentritt when he realizes none of his superiors will do anything against the Allies landing at Normandy. He knows in that moment Germany will lose the war.
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