This is a regular subject and hardly worth getting your knickers in a twist. It is great fun for "experts" like us to spot a soldier with his boot laces threaded crossed instead of straight but it almost never impacts on what the doco makers are trying to tell.
As mentioned above, all docos have both time constraints and budgets plus few film makers have detailed expert knowledge of their subject.
Unless there are outrageous claims directly impacting the story "British Spitfires leaving an airfield in France to intercept Richtofen's Flying Circus in March 1918" we can look on it as entertainment during idle moments to see where they have cut corners or saved money by using cheap stock footage of "generic" military scenes.
999 people out of 1,000 would never know the difference.
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