In opening sequences when Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca by plane, the aircraft depicted is an model of a single engine Fokker F.VII transport, a major Dutch designed airliner famous from the mid 1920s. The Nazis had one of the most advanced Air Forces in the late 1930s to early 1940s, when this film takes place, and Strasser would have likely arrived in an all-metal Junkers tri-motor. The F.VII's, which were made of wood, metal tubing and fabric covering, were upgraded to tri-motor configuration in the mid-20s while single engine variants (as seen in this film) were still in service mainly in Europe. A later larger version called the F.10 also made of wood and fabric crashed in 1931 killing Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne. The F.VII's and their later variants were taken out of service nearly around the world and replaced by all-metal transports i.e. the DC-3 and in Germany Junkers all-metal designs. While it's not impossible, it is improbable that the advanced nature of German aviation would have been using an outmoded Fokker F.VII as a transport in 1942.

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