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.
I bought new the Library of America edition and just finished reading it yesterday. I somehow forgot some things in the 59 years since I read the Fawcett Crest 60 cent paperback edition.
I recently decided to buy the dvd and not be a slave to others. And I bought the Time, Life, History and a British ($19.95) book-magazine and have read 3 so far. Have the Antony Beevor book D Day, too.
Other than that I let it pass unnoticed.
Yep! Watching it.
Recording to watch later.
Just saw that scene with the kraut screaming at the commander on the phone, “Invasion! “Can’t you hear them?
Never seen it however about 10 years ago my dad (101 airborne)came out to visit and there was about every branch of the military there on this day having a party and friends house and all these young guys were commenting and my dad said to me that Mr. Samaldol was there Im like what the post man the usher at church and he said yeah he got shot in the ass.
The best scene is where the German Colonel looks and sees the fleet arriving and knows his goose is cooked.
“The Cold Blue” was a huge disappointment to me and my son after watching “They Shall Grow Old” last December.
“John has a long mustache”
Yup, I’m a bit late into the show, had to wrap ‘the Battle of Britain” but you’re not alone!
He played the part of the Nazi that is shot in the film Casablanca!
I've watched it numerous times since then. I have it on DVD. The Smithsonian Channel aired a special tonight that I recorded, and will watch tomorrow. It's titled "The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell." Last night I watched "D-Day: The Untold Stories" that I'd recorded from The History Channel.
My favorite movie since I was, oh, six years old.
It’s an education about the world, and about history.
Not specific to D-Day, but the point of it goes deep- the things that go on the world are common to everyone, but they work differently for everyone. Even when everyone is fighting in the same battle in the same place.
It probably started a fascination with history, having been given a spectacular clue about how it works.
My favorite scenes.
“John has a long mustache”
The young Robert Wagner cast as a Ranger at Pont Du Hoc realizing that the German guns they have fought and died getting to are telephone poles.
Robert Mitchum playing BG Norm Cota rallying 29th ID soldiers off the beaches.
Not on here.
Is that the movie in which the actor Richard Todd plays a character who meets up with Richard Todd?
Yes, I’m watching it right now.
I grew up with a kid whose dad crossed Omaha beach in the 2nd or 3rd wave. A great man and a great family. I saw his wife at my dads funeral and his kids and I went to school together. Dairy farmer, county sheriff, and a great person. His whole family that are left are still true family friends. We are losing this generation way to fast.
Actually watching episode 2 of “The Civil War”. George McClellan’s ego and incompetence know no bounds...
Do you know the story about where those guns were?
https://www.valorstudios.com/Dick-Winters-at-Brecourt-Manor.htm
Winters should of received the MOH but Army politics wouldn’t allow it.
“John has a long mustache”
Saw it when it came out. Loved it!
Youngsters especially get a kick from it. Watch it with them.
(My Dad fought in the Pacific and kinda resented the attention D-Day got.)
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