The scenes where the Germans come into the French village were filmed on Calary Bog in County Wicklow, Ireland. For many weeks, the building of the village attracted the locals to watch it coming up. Then it was bombed and made to look destroyed. It was a local tourist attraction for a long time after the film had wrapped. The Berlin scenes were shot in Dublin. Christ Church Cathedral and Leinster House, the seat of the Oireachtas, the Irish national parliament, are easily recognisable in the background of many scenes and Trinity College served as the army headquarters where von Klugermann's office is located. Many of the flying scenes were shot at Weston Aerodrome (EIWT) near Lucan, Ireland, about 10 miles west of Dublin hence the name confusion with Weston-on-the-Green. Today there is a restaurant named after the movie at the Aerodrome. The final scene where Stachel meets his fate was filmed at Baldonnel, the Irish Air Corps' main base. The hangars seen in the movie were built for the Royal Air Force in 1918. The Carrickabrack Viaduct in Fermoy, Co. Cork was used for the scenes where Stachel and Von Klugermann flew several times under the railway bridge. The view from the 19th century railway bridge which spans the River Blackwater is spectacular and it was one of the reasons the producers of The Blue Max chose it as one of the locations for the film. The railway line linked Mallow, Co. Cork to Waterford City. In 1967 the railway line from mallow to ballinacourty, Co. Waterford was closed by CIÉ and the track removed by 1970. The line from Ballinacourty to Waterford city reopened as a freight only line serving newly opened Quigleys Dolomite mine until 1982 when the mine closed and the line was closed again until 2002/03 when the track to Kilmeaden was removed. Since March 2017(the 50th anniversary of the original line closure) the trackbed from Dungarvan to Waterford city is now known as the Waterford greenway, a leisure amenity sharing a narrow-gauge train line from Kilmeaden station to its terminus at Gracedieu, Waterford city. Historical accuracy In an article entitled "About The Blue Max the author, Jack D. Hunter, wrote: On the day of our arrival at the Bray Studios, we were shown to canvas director’s chairs with our names on the back and treated to rushes of some key action sequences. And I