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To: PROCON
"Saving Private Ryan" for the realism portrayed at Omaha Beach - you REALLY could feel what it must have been like for those guys ...

Brig. Gen. Norman Cota (Robert Mitchum) in "The Longest Day" for the following quote:

"Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: those that are already dead and those that are gonna die. Now get off your butts. You guys are the Fighting 29th."

11 posted on 06/06/2010 2:13:13 PM PDT by Lmo56
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To: Lmo56

My favorite scenes involved the two lone German pilots, and how much disdain they had for their superiors.

Col. Josef ‘Pips’ Priller: [speaking in German] Thank you, my dear Hans! You have just killed both of us!
[slams down phone]

Luftwaffe major: It is getting very difficult to get any sleep around here.

Col. Josef ‘Pips’ Priller: Your prospects for a long sleep have just improved. The invasion has begun at Normandy. We are to fly there and attack with our two planes.


13 posted on 06/06/2010 2:16:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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