I saw it in the theater in 1960, but was traveling today, so didn’t dig it out. However,I often ended up as a dishwasher at the country club in 1964 and years after till college graduation. I noticed the chef always limped as he moved around the kitchen. He saw my puzzled look, and said he got the limp from a wound received when he was with the Rangers at Pointe De Hoc. Such is one of the stories I remember among so many others I could tell or have forgotten. The movie has had an all different meaning for me after that time.
Navy Destroyers nosed up as close to the beach as they could and men with rifles topside as well as the ships guns supported the Ranger’s climb up the cliffs. It was a truely heroic effort for everyone involved. The entire enormity of the battle is hard to get in perspective. Every movie star in the world wanted in that movie. They said no one would come to see it. They were wrong.