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• The aircraft used in the movie was owned by the 3M Company
  
  
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author of the book this film was adapted from, was a Prisoner of War in World War 2. He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge while a battalion scout with the 106 Infantry Division on December 22, 1944, and used these experiences in his novel when Billy Pilgrim is captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp.
  
  
• In an early scene when Billy's mother is visiting him in the hospital, she is talking about Billy's Dresden experience to Elliot Rosewater -- the title character from Kurt Vonnegut's 1965 novel, "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater", and a character who was later portrayed by Ken Hudson Campbell in '_Breakfast of Champions (1999)_' .
  
  

• Dirk Benedict auditioned for the part of Robert Pilgrim but director George Roy Hill preferred Perry King.
  
  
• Sharon Gans was only six years older than Perry King, who played her son, and seven years older than 'Holly Near (I)' , who played her daughter.
  
  

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