Here's the Complete Schedule for the TCM's 75th Anniversary of D-Day Series

military.com ^ | May 2, 2019 | James Barber

[PROCON]

Medal of Honor recipient Audie Murphy plays himself in “To Hell and Back.” (Universal)

Never Surrender: WWII in the Movies is a 75-movie series airing on Turner Classic Movies in recognition of the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The series runs on Thursdays in May and June.

TCM host Ben Mankiewicz visited the National World War II Museum in New Orleans to film the channel’s trademark introductions with the museum’s staff and noted WWII historian Lynne Olson. He also talked with us about the series and TCM’s unique relationship with its viewers.

The month of May is devoted to movies about life and sacrifice on the homefront. June features the WWII combat movies that we know and love and quite a few obscure titles that deserve a first (or second) look.

[Grampa Dave]

The link doesn’t work.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks.
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I just ordered a Kindle version for $2. I love Kindle.

[sparklite2]

That’s true. And they kept the citizenry in the dark. But when China-based bombers started hitting industrial sites, rumors started and the Tarawa/Saipan invasions so close to the homeland made it plain to the citizenry they’d been lied to massively.

[sparklite2]

I couldn’t find the article again. In essence words like Omaha, Neptune, Overlord, and Mulberry, all code names used for the Normandy invasion, were popping up in the London Telegraph newspaper just prior to the invasion.

British intelligence went after the writer of the crossword puzzles, who was nothing more than a teacher at a boy’s school. He was rather indignant, but no one could explain the coincidental nature of the clues.

Or was it just a coincidence? It turned out recently that the teacher often used his students to suggest words for his puzzles, and put them in the crossword. Many of the students were dependents of American military. The kids may have picked up the words from parental conversations and passed the on the the teacher as suggested puzzle answers.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks. I vaguely remember a Brit tv show disclosing the crossword connection.

In WWII and for a few years afterwards, anyone exposing true Brit Intel secrets, often had a visit from the Brit’s Special Branches.

If you and your family were still alive after the first visit, you didn’t want them back for a second and final visit.

[Grampa Dave]

Or was it just a coincidence?

Jethro Gibbs rule #39.

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[sparklite2]

It’s interesting how US and UK brains made such an impact on the war without firing a shot. I’m thinking the Enigma machine that deciphered German codes and the work of the Naval Intel guys who assembled the clues to Midway.

Add to that the Navajo code talkers who spoke a language the Japanese would have been unfamiliar with, using code words on top of that.

Heh. As an aside, I’m glad I double-checked. Instead of Enigma, I originally had it as MK Ultra. MK Ultra was very different! LOL

WWII, the last good war.

[sparklite2]

You’ll hear the same thing from Judge Judy. LOL

[ABN 505]

“Homer” won a Academy Award for that movie. He was a Paratrooper and lost his arms in a training accident if I recall correctly.

[ABN 505]

Your right. I saw the it when it first came out on the big screen and even at 14 years old I knew it was not well made. Probably because my Dad actually was there in the middle of the real thing and I gleaned things about the War that made it not so glamorous.

[SunkenCiv]

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I am going to celebrate the 75th anniversary of DDay by remembering my now deceased Father In-Law who went in the night before on a glider....was injured by 88 shrapnel around the hedgerows and also did a glider insert in Operation Market Garden.

[colorado tanker]

IIRC, there was an English boy who loved hanging out with Americans in a nearby camp. He was basically adopted by them and ran errands and shared meals with the guys. It was likely inadvertent, but the kid was suggesting words he had heard and were top secret. I believe the prof got rid of his papers and successfully hid the kid's connection.

I vaguely remember a story about an American officer who was throwing around some inside knowlege at a London cocktail party, who was immediately fired and sent back to the States.

Overlord was such a gigantic undertaking many people knew vital secrets, even on a need to know basis. It's a miracle the Germans never figured it out, but then they didn't want to figure it out. The Fuehrer and the smart money were on Calais, not Normandy.

[sparklite2]

Wasn’t Patton down south with a fake army?

Even with Patton in the US dog house
for slapping that coward, Hitler didn’t
believe Patton would be kept out
of the invasion.

Me neither.

[colorado tanker]

Yes, it was part of Operation Quicksilver, the most successful military deception operation in history, or since the Trojan Horse anyway.

A fictitious army, First US Army Group (FUSAG) was formed with Patton in command. They were located in SE England, across from the Pas de Calais. There were rubber tanks and trucks and lots of fake radio traffic. It was all designed to make the Germans think Calais would be the target and not Normandy (or any of the other half dozen possibilities). They believed Patton would lead the invasion, as he had the American invasion of Sicily. Even better, they knew as a historian Patton would advocate for a landing at Calais (which at some point he did).

Patton knew from the beginning of 1944 that he would be given command of Third Army and lead the Normandy breakout when it happened, but that was another secret that never got out.

The operation succeeded brilliantly. The German 15th Army was still sitting in far northern France when Patton began his dash to the German border. They never saw action in Normandy.

Ike's discipline of Patton is often misinterpreted. Ike wanted and needed Patton in France because he knew Patton was his best field army commander. His letter of reprimand and orders for an apology tour were intended to preempt harsher punishment from Washington, which probably would have included orders back to the States and no further role as a combat commander. At the end of the day, Marshall accepted Ike's actions as adequate and resisted calls from politicians for harsher punishment. Of course, the Germans thought the entire affair was ridiculous.

[jmacusa]

I've seen those videos. “The German Weekly Look’’(News). What I'd like to know is what was the name of that nasally voiced, rapid fire speaking German narrator.

[sparklite2]

Similarly, an officer, can’t think of his name, was at a meeting in Europe where a low level bombing operation was being planned. He spoke up and said it was suicide. When the Colonel pushed back, the officer said he’d be glad to lead the mission if the Colonel sat in the plane with him.

The mission was scrubbed, but the Colonel was getting ready to hammer down on the officer. A high official got wind of what was happening and transferred the officer back to the States before the Colonel could act.

The officer was assigned the task of founding and training what would become the Navy’s UDT, later the SEALS. providing invaluable service in Tarawa and beyond.