When John Smiths had his Pensacola Naval Air Station application to his dad, it is folded only once (horizontally, right side to left). As his father looks at it, there is a vertical crease, indicating the paper had been folded top to bottom.
The narrator mispronounces the work "decade"; he says it with with a short "a" (e.g., "ad" or "fad") instead of with a long "a" (e.g., "made" or "fade").
Although this is a film about men training to be Navy pilots, there is an aerial view of Randolph Field, Texas, the premier flying training base for the Army Air Corps in 1940. Also, there is a scene of training planes lined up on the parking ramp at Randolph Field.