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"The Longest Day"-D-Day +75 years Anyone watching it?
6/6/19 | Hoagy62

Posted on 06/06/2019 6:39:15 PM PDT by hoagy62

So, is anyone watching/renting it on this 75th anniversary of the greatest invasion in world history?

My family and I are watching it.


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To: mad_as_he$$

The leadership and tactics of that small unit action at Brecourt is still taught at the US Military Academy and US Army Infantry School.


41 posted on 06/06/2019 7:30:15 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: TADSLOS

Amazing story in a time of thousands of them.


42 posted on 06/06/2019 7:33:25 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

A flick worth remembering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePzwg0LyYL0


43 posted on 06/06/2019 7:36:18 PM PDT by Rock N Jones (1935)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Yes, I’m sure there’s plenty of amazing stories from that day that never came to light and never will.


44 posted on 06/06/2019 7:38:24 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

The Free French are destroying the krauts at a casino at Ouistreham.


45 posted on 06/06/2019 7:39:14 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: hoagy62

HBO in my hotel is playing Band of Brothers. Watching


46 posted on 06/06/2019 7:43:22 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: Fai Mao
Yes, that was a most memorable scene. My favorite was at the last, the morning of the next day, June 7th.

More of the American army unloading at Omaha beach and moving inland, toward the hedgerows...

They just don't make movies like that any more, haven't for a long time.

47 posted on 06/06/2019 7:44:31 PM PDT by OKSooner (Shoot the coyotes.)
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To: hoagy62

I will watch it tomorrow.


48 posted on 06/06/2019 7:45:42 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: GreenLanternCorps

But...his headquarters was in the saddle...


49 posted on 06/06/2019 7:47:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: OKSooner

My dad was D-Day + 6. He was with the army unloading and he quickly moved inland. He said their were bodies still on the beach waiting to be transported out. Too many to move in 1 day.


50 posted on 06/06/2019 7:53:39 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Pox

That’s what we watched - “Saving Private Ryan.”

My sons had never seen it until today.


51 posted on 06/06/2019 7:58:07 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Keep fighting, Nick!)
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To: hoagy62

Star studded cast!


52 posted on 06/06/2019 8:04:05 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: hoagy62

I just hope you watch the version where the actors speak in their native language.

Netflix’ version has everyone speaking English, it’s just not the same.


53 posted on 06/06/2019 8:05:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hoagy62

Recording it. TCM had many D-Day movies on today, but that looked like the most comprehensive. I’m no kid, but feel I didn’t learn as much about WWII as I should have.


54 posted on 06/06/2019 8:07:42 PM PDT by Joann37
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55 posted on 06/06/2019 8:08:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hoagy62

The Big Red One was a good one also, although D-Day was just a part of it.


56 posted on 06/06/2019 8:08:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Equine1952

My 98 year old uncle died this past Monday. He was the very last of that generation in out entire family. He was working on his. Echanical Engineering degree when he enlisted. He and his bride got sent to an unknown, out of the way place called “Oak Ridge, Tennessee” where he ran a shift of farmers running a gaseous diffusion line.


57 posted on 06/06/2019 8:08:58 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: WashingtonSource
The Free French are destroying the krauts at a casino at Ouistreham.

That was an amazing sequence. Years before drones were available.

58 posted on 06/06/2019 8:10:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Finalapproach29er

You wound my heart with a monotonous languor. Uh.. sorry.. have to go. There’s a fire at the travel agency!


59 posted on 06/06/2019 8:20:15 PM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 2,000 posts as of 1/16/19. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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To: zerosix; WashingtonSource
Actually, there were *TWO* German-American actors who did something like this:

Werner Klemperer, known forever as Colonel Klink in Hogan's Heroes, refused that role until the producers agreed to rewrite it so that he was a bumbling fool who never succeeded at anything. He once said, "I had one qualification when I took the job: if they ever wrote a segment whereby Colonel Klink would come out the hero, I would leave the show." His father was Jewish, and his family left Germany in 1935 before it was too late.

Conrad Veidt was a very popular German actor in the 1920s to early 30s. In 1933, Goebbels was purging all Jewish actors from film & stage. Veidt had just re-married, to a Hungarian Jew. He was told by Goebbels' minions that if he divorced her and declared support for the Nazi regime, he could continue acting. His reaction was to fill in the "Race?" question with "Jude" in the questionnaire sent to all actors, though he himself wasn't Jewish, but rather was demonstrating his solidarity with his wife (like the non-Jewish Danes who put on the yellow star). Immediately after, they emigrated to the UK before Goebbels could arrest them.

After 8 years of starring in anti-Nazi movies, he & his wife moved to Hollywood for the express purpose of making movies that would help convince Americans to support the British war effort. Similar to Klemperer, he had his contract mandate that he would only play German characters if they were villains.

BTW, Hogan's Heroes Trivia: The actor who played Corporal LeBeau is a French Jew who spent 3 years in Buchenwald, and still has the tattoo on his arm today. 12 other family members went to Auschwitz and none came back. The only thing that saved him was his ability at the age of 16 to sing & dance and entertain the SS soldiers at the camp.

60 posted on 06/06/2019 8:48:09 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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