D-Day

no idea about that I'm afraid 🙁

I would guess so?

Originally posted by Fire
Finaly someone with a brain THANK YOU USH

The Longest Day is one of the movies to watch about D-day it kicks the hell out saving private ryan

in saving private ryan it seems that they get of omaha beach 15 minuts after their arrival and that AINT TRUE

Reason why was that wasn't the whole point of the movie. It wouldn't have been a good idea to show the enitre battle. It would take too long and be it's own movie. But, the 15 mins does give you a good idea what it was like. Longest Day gives you more backround to the invasion

As for the bloodiest day, maybe first day of the Somme? That was a real nasty battle.

as pointed above: the battle of stalingrad alone was more than 500 000 casualties, think less died there

by percentage, opening day of Somme might of been bloodier. Don't forget about Lenningrad. Wasn't that a 444 day siege?
As for Stalinggrad, was Enemy at the Gates a good reflection of it?

damnit, I was searching on the net which was the bloodiest, and got spiked

The movie The Longest Day is based on the book.
The screenplay is in fact written by Cornelius Ryan, the author of said book.

Originally posted by silver_tears
The movie The Longest Day is based on the book.
The screenplay is in fact written by Cornelius Ryan, the author of said book.

along with that are "A Bridge too Far", a book and movie based on Operation Market Garden and one more, can't remember it.

This is Somme:

Since the 1st July, the British has suffered 420,000 casualties. The French lost nearly 200,000 and it is estimated that German casualties were in the region of 500,000

D-Day:

The Germans were hit the hardest after the invasion. Over 30,000 men had to be buried, and almost 80,000 wounded soldiers were carried off. The United States was devastated nearly as hard as the Germans. A shocking 29,000 soldiers were picked up lifeless from the beach. One hundred six thousand men were in pain from their wounds. The United Kingdom did not suffer as bad as The United States and Germany. Around 11,000 soldiers were killed on D-Day. Fifty-four thousand British Men were injured. The Canadians had the fewest casualties. Only 5,000 men died during the invasion. This is very low compared to the other countries. Canada only had to care for about 13,000 wounded soldiers.

WWI was by far the bloodiest war I think 😬
I wish I had my history notes, I have numbers for casualties for the first world war for all the majour powers 🙁 Don't remember off the top of my head.

Originally posted by Agent Elrond
along with that are "A Bridge too Far", a book and movie based on Operation Market Garden and one more, can't remember it.

Sean Connery is in both 😎

His third book is called The Last Battle but there is no movie ❌

Originally posted by Agent Elrond
by percentage, opening day of Somme might of been bloodier. Don't forget about Lenningrad. Wasn't that a 444 day siege?
As for Stalinggrad, was Enemy at the Gates a good reflection of it?

I own that movie, but have never seen it.
According to my brother he says it's pretty good, he likes war stuff and all 😛

Originally posted by silver_tears
This is Somme:

Since the 1st July, the British has suffered 420,000 casualties. The French lost nearly 200,000 and it is estimated that German casualties were in the region of 500,000

D-Day:

The Germans were hit the hardest after the invasion. Over 30,000 men had to be buried, and almost 80,000 wounded soldiers were carried off. The United States was devastated nearly as hard as the Germans. A shocking 29,000 soldiers were picked up lifeless from the beach. One hundred six thousand men were in pain from their wounds. The United Kingdom did not suffer as bad as The United States and Germany. Around 11,000 soldiers were killed on D-Day. Fifty-four thousand British Men were injured. The Canadians had the fewest casualties. Only 5,000 men died during the invasion. This is very low compared to the other countries. Canada only had to care for about 13,000 wounded soldiers.

WWI was by far the bloodiest war I think 😬
I wish I had my history notes, I have numbers for casualties for the first world war for all the majour powers 🙁 Don't remember off the top of my head.

I think your stats for the d-day deaths are high. I think it's somewhere around 10000

I got it from a D-Day site: http://www.bgcs.k12.in.us/bgms/Publish/templinS/index.html

I wouldn't trust it. Some info is wrong. I have never seen any stats like those before.
Here's another stat
The U.S. 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions made the most difficult landing on Omaha Beach. Stiff German resistance here caused over 3,000 casualties before the Allied troops could establish their positions by the end of the first day. On D-Day itself, British and Canadian forces suffered more than 4,000 casualties; the Americans about 6,000.

Well if it is wrong, pardon moi, 😄

I was watching a program last night and it said that Churchhill told his wife there might be 20000 people dead tommorrow. Then it was said only 10000 died

Stalingrad has a number of casualties of 647.000 (both sides, the russians had 500.000)

Saint Laurent was the first to get freed, if memory serves

Originally posted by Agent Elrond
I think your stats for the d-day deaths are high. I think it's somewhere around 10000

From my stats you get 75 grand dead 😕

Antietam is considered the bloodiest battle for U.S.

I found out that the Battle of the Bulge:
The single biggest and bloodiest battle American soldiers ever fought. It came as a total surprise, on December 16th, 1944, when 30 German divisions roared across the Allied front in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Again, I think we are getting rather distracted here...