I do get a bit sniffy about the needless anti-English and anti-raf scenes, which seem to be thrown in totally without any context or background.
A fairly common theme in some of the work Spielberg has been associated with over the years and I suspect a case of the writing (or in this case screenwriting) for the target audience.
IMHO Stephen Ambrose did similar (and of course at he worked with Spielberg at least once).
Ambrose often appeared very balanced in his early work (sums up Britain’s situation very well in the last episode of The World at War) and his early books (Pegasus Bridge) but then realised there was mileage and probably easy money in simply parroting the lazy stereotypes about the Brits supposedly being far too keen on a stopping fighting for a cup of tea.