Today, June 6, we commemorate those soldiers of the U.S. 1st Army and the British 2nd Army, French and Canadian soldiers, American and British paratroopers, that fought in the largest conflict of World War II.
The U.S. 1st Army attacked Omaha and Utah beaches while the British 2nd Army attacked Sword, Juno, and Gold beaches, each army with the help of the French and Canadians. American paratroopers were sent in to take out artillery at Brecourt and retake the town of Carentan. British soldiers in gliders landed behind enemy lines and held the bridges of Horsa and Pegasus to keep German armor, or tanks, from crossing over to the beaches to repel the U.S. 1st and British 2nd.
D-Day was a success and turned the tides of World War II.
watch Band of Brothers. It shows the 101st Airborn drop. It rocks.
Today is the 60th Aniversery of d-day. Technically, the day of any invasion is called d-day, but the invasion of normandy was the biggest of all the D-Days, so whenever someones says d-day, they usally mean the June 6th one.
My grandfather passed away about a year ago, and recently while we were cleaning out his house to sell it, we came across alot of his old war photos from his tour w/ the Navy, including Normandy. I found a mini Hitler propaganda book, as well as his NAVY deck tobogan, and an artillery case from Omaha Beach. He also had 2 Nazi SS helmets, which were headed to an undisclosed museum.
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True story, my Uncle Robert and grandfather Jesse were both serving. My grandfather arrived at Normandy, sadly, because he was operating the ferries that returned the dead and wounded to base. Not knowing if they'd ever see each other again, Robert just so happened to be on duty, repairing toll bridges, and of course, my "Grampy" spotted him, and the rest is history.
While I doubt there are any D-Day survivors reading this board, I appreciate all they did for us, and in a movie sense, thank Spielberg for his contributions to film with "Saving Private Ryan", easily the most realistic WW2 movie ever.
Last edited by Cory Chaos on Jun 6th, 2004 at 07:41 PM
D-Day was amazing, and how can you be "firmly" against watching Saving Private Ryan in school? Never the less, History class. That's EASILY one of the best World War II movies ever made.
And I to love watching World War II stuff, and at the moment am Watching "WWII Road To Victory." It's actually really entertaining, and better then the other package of DVD's I bought. It's in color, and all actualy footage from over 20 battles or something a long those lines. Very entertaining, and educational.
I also bought "The Chonicles of WW2" and that one isn't as good I think..black and white, but not all real footage.
I am not American firstly, I'm Canadian, naturally I prefer to watch movies about Canadians in war, and I'm sorry but unless you people have actually been there how can you comment on how good the movie is?
There may be exaggerations and lies in it for all we know. And it may be completely Hollywoodized and far from the truth.
That being said we have veterans of D-Day coming in to our class tomorrow, and I plan on asking them their take on Saving Private Ryan, and how closely it resembles the war.
Plus I don't like watching war movies that are from only one point of view. Like for example, I liked All Quiet on the Western Front, because it was told from the point of view of the Germans, and not just the Allied forces even though it is WWI, I still enjoyed it.
Spielberg conducted a lot of interviews to get the jest of things in Normandy. I'm sure his research was pretty inclusive, some of which was documented on the SPR DVD extra features, including testimony of those who he interviewed, regarding the movie.
I doubt anyone has actually bothered contesting the plausibility of SPR, especially after Schindler's List, which being a Jewish man himself, I would think would be an very important piece of his own history.
ah come on cinemaddiction! they showed only Omaha beach and only the americans, not only that it was pure propaganda for how "brave" americans are since mankind was ever created
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