My grandfather, Nicholas Herman Gieschen Senior of Wilmington, North Carolina was there at Omaha beach during the first wave. He was an engineer. He died when I was 5 or 6 years old. He survived Omaha beach, Saint Mare Eglise, St. Lo, Falasie Gap, Fighting into Belgium and Luxembourg, Trapped in Bastoge during the Battle of the Bulge, crossed the Rhine and witnessed the horrors of the holocaust when he helped to liberate a concentration camp in Germany. May he rest in peace
@@apache-90 yes he did, but like alot of other soldiers back then what they saw they rarely spoke of afterwards, he mentioned it to my mother only and no one else
he may have known ralph crawford, also a combat engineer . he went on to be the postmaster at dilley , texas. i got to meet him in 1969. i was in dilley and had just read the book. saw his name in the back and went to the post office to get acquainted. he told me stories of the landing. nice guy. lived to his 90s.
My grandfather fought in the pacific and died before I was born. My dad raised me showing all the WW2 movies he’d watched growing up. I remember watching this with him when I was in middle school, and in high school we watched Saving Private Ryan together. A lot of good memories, and after he too passed away, I keep alive my love for military history and respect for veterans.
@@bluemarshall6180 Well there were immense amounts of transport and armoured vehicles rolling in so it may have been blotted out, + artillery guns, ships and odorents dissolving in sea water. This is not, however, to downplay the horrid scenery he must've encountered while arriving. We can(or not) only imagine.
Kesha Gwen Mobile Bangbang he’s lucky to be in that time period living in America today is pure miserable I only don’t leave because my family refuses to. You got people of color on the rise with their racism. People of this color that fought for the war hating themselves now and feeling like they should be ashamed of themselves because liberal media tells them too and you got them believing they got some privilege that they don’t really have based off skin color.
My grandma was living in Belgium when she heard the Allies had landed. She said the collective sigh of relief was palpable and they were close to dancing in the streets. She still reminds me of D-Day and VE Day
For those arguing in this comment section The Longest Day was made just 18 years after the actual Normandy landings so it's very authentic depicting D Day since many actors were veterans of that battle
Isn’t it possible that in reality it more closely resembled Saving Private Ryan’s version, but this movie was constrained by technology of its time, the sensibilities of what was considered “appropriate for public consumption” and the fact that they had 1/50th of the shooting budget? Something tells me that the snarky banter between the General and the private going on @2:55 wasn’t that common place. Also I doubt that there were many Generals personally storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Just because there were veterans acting in this movie doesn’t mean that the movie is completely accurate.
This role could have brought back memories for actor Eddie Albert. During WW 2 he drove a landing craft at the bloody invasion of Tarawa Island. He won the Bronze Star with Combat V for rescuing over 70 wounded and trapped Marines while under enemy fire. A real life hero.
My grandfather was in world war 2 and d day , he had his toe blown up and he was hospitalized for a year , he made it home !!! And he just died 4/9/20 , he turned 99 today , I miss him sm
This was honestly one of the best war films I ever watched. As I think about today being 75 years since we landed in Normandy and thousands of soldiers died fighting for freedom and died serving their countries and fighting for liberation. My great grandfather fought in D-Day and he saw a lot of his friends die when he was on the beach. He passed away 11 years before I was born. May all of our fallen heroes Rest In Peace and we will always remember them as today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day
I was stationed aboard the USS Muliphen AKA 61 at the time this scene was shot. I was a Engineman on one of the landing boats. they were called MIKE Boats with 2 GM6-71 Diesel Engines, my job was to keep them running. It was an experience I have and will never forget, I was 18 yr old kid at the time. We were at that location for almost 3 wks. during the filming. Corsica, France 1961
Don Wallace you should post a much longer commentary about your experience, there are thousands waiting to hear from you and 90% of the people that post stuff just make pointless comments...where we’re the cameras? What did they pay you? Was the weather the same as D-Day? Etc.
@@mr.zondide2746 , as for as pay, 20th Century gave the 6th fleet credit for participating, we were told it was good PR and might inspire new recruits. Much of the cameras were above the beach with with the Directors and Military Officers helping out with the filming. Actually there isn't enough room here to do it justice as to what we did. It was an experience that has been with me all these yrs. Before the film was released to the public we were privileged to see the film. It was a long movie and after our scenes were shown, many of us went on about our business on the ship. Thank you for asking.
it's real your army rape the french population and kill us after because my grandmother and lot of proof of this facts crying you are not the heros in this war maybe in hooliwood but in fact russian are better ! mmmm sorry oncle sam !
I got to see Normandy when I was around 8 years old while living in Germany. I was pretty lucky to have gone. I got to see museums, the beaches, Pointe Du Hoc and shell craters. But when I saw the graveyard I broke down in tears as there were so many grave markers. And what is even sadder is that some did not have names on them because they couldn't find their names. It was truly a depressing scene. So to all who have served in the military, I salute you.
Huh, I did too. I was 8 years old exactly and living around Stuttgart at the time; the BSA was holding some sort of massive ceremony in Normandy and so of course my family and I headed off with the rest of the local Cub Scouts to be there. Still remember almost everything from that trip like it happened last year, near exactly like you describe it - we went to Pont du Hoc first, Utah the next day, and the final ceremony at the cemetery by Omaha was finally held on the third. Did you happen to go there around 2011?
One of the most moving scenes in a movie - was the beginning of _Saving Private Ryan_ where as an old man - he finds the Captains Grave amongst all those other graves. They filmed that at the real cemetery. Saving Private Ryan opening cemetery scene th-cam.com/video/0HUf68gFGEE/w-d-xo.html .
Regarding D'day, "Saving Private Ryan" may be filled with the best tricks and most realistic Special effects modern technology has to offer in the filming industry. But I've got to say that "The Longest Day" did much more justice to the story. If not mistaken, it's still by far the only movie that digs into the details of D'day at Normandy during WW2.
The Longest Day is the story of the D-Day landings. Saving Private Ryan is a Spielberg schmaltz movie framed by the D-Day landings as a setting. Considering everything outside of the first 10 minutes or so is fiction in SPR. But SPR led to Band of Brothers, which is excellent.
@@TellYouHwaet Saving Private Ryan gives a much more accurate depiction of combat and especially close combat in WWII where the battle scenes are probably as close to seeing real life combat as you'll get to on film. The story might be fiction, but the way soldiers fight and how they tried their best to get all the vehicles, weapons, uniforms etc to be as accurate as possible really made it one of the best if not the best war movies around when it comes to showing the brutality of soldiers fighting each other on the battlefield.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ I don't know, "the way the soldiers fight" seems to imply Miller's Rangers, supposedly better trained and a cut above average infantrymen, have zero knowledge or experience with small unit tactics, Reiben is mutinous and insubordinate, and no one seems able to stay on-mission. Of course all but one of them are dead at the end, so maybe "fight like you're in a Hollywood movie and you'll probably get annihilated" may be an unintended message.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ You are most definitely wrong. The longest day shows way more accurate combat, especially when the soldiers get shot on the beach. They just fall like their body was shut down by a bullet and it’s not as dramatic as saving private Ryan. Don’t get me wrong saving private Ryan is accurate but not as accurate as the longest day.
75 years ago today my father was on the landing ship waiting to go ashore with the second wave of the 29th Division. He said the worst part was being so seasick. Even though it was the second wave, the man next to him on the landing craft when it hit the beach was killed.
@@taroman7100 people in multiple parts of Earth right now are experiencing hell. Not privileged Americans of course (including myself). But there are definitely people alive right now going through the worst things imaginable and not imaginable. The hell of war, especially battles like this where soldiers are sent into near-certain death, can barely be imagined or simulated, not fully. Being in mortal danger at all times for very long periods is something you can only really know from experiencing it.
fuck you oncle sam ! seriously ! you not the heros of this war stop the bullshit please and respect the honnor of you grand father she fight for oncle sam bro !
2:04 there is a small blooper in this part, as the sand is sent into the air you can see the shadow of the camera mount going past at the bottom of the shot.
Cornelius Ryan and Darryl Zanuck disliked each other from the start but it all came to a head when Ryan accused Zanuck of making stuff up for the movie. The studio 20th century fox made concessions all in Zanuck's favor, why not, he was producing it. Ryan hated the finished product and wanted his name removed from the project. One of those "making stuff up" was Zanuck's portrayal of Omaha. Spielberg showed us the carnage of Omaha but he failed to show us the next 2 waves that also came in. Also he didn't show the deadly 2+ hour stalemate that took place on many sectors of Omaha including dog green. He probably wanted the momentum to keep going for his movie but to me it's a pretty big gaffe. Realism over accuracy.
Favorite war movie as a kid. I'm realizing a lot of things wrong with inaccuracies in this film but still one of my favorites. I' m curious what the actual Omaha veterans thought of this movie when it came out. They would have been in their early 40s by then.
Eddie Albert was a Higgins boat driver at the Battle of Tarawa… and went above and beyond the call of duty at that battle. I can only imagine his thoughts portraying this scene.
Zanuck did an admirable job with the Longest Day. The book Ryan wrote on a Bridge too Far was equally as good as Ryan’s Longest Day, but the movie fell far short. It was made during a time when the public was more concentrated on the personalities of the actors than the story itself. Many of the characters who played important figures like Generals Gavin and Taylor were just not believable. Ryan O’Neil, Robert Redford and Elliott Gould just did not measure up to the riles they played!
my grandfather never complained about his position as a b17 pilot. one reason he mentioned was that he had to sleep in his cold plane on an english airfield on christmas of 1944 while the 101st was surrounded. the other was that he had to fly on D-Day and knew it wouldn't be good for the guys on the ground.
I personally think this film’s depiction of Omaha beach is the best, most accurate depiction of this battle in cinema. It’s scientifically impossible to be ripped apart by an MG42 at the range at which the troops in Saving Private Ryan were. Omaha was given the nickname “Bloody Omaha” because of its casualties, but people don’t understand that Omaha took forever to get off of. It was the most heavily defended beachhead that morning, and troops were there for hours while the other landings were moving inland. Saving Private Ryan is a great look at what the mind and memories of these men would have been like in the moment, nothing but pure chaos. The Longest Day does a better job of showing the reality of the situation and the less “glamorous” reality of conflict. Much respect and honor to these brave men as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the operation.
I don't understand you. You call this the most accurate depiction yet you correctly point out that Omaha was a nightmare in trying to get off the beach and the troops were stuck there for hours under constant fire. This depiction literally shows the entire American force just sprinting across the beach with little to no resistance. Please explain how that is accurate? I must be missing something.
@@chase5860 They moved across the sandy section, then were pinned for hours at the base of the hills. As is shown here (they even mention being pinned on the beach at 4:00). Don't know how you think all of that gunfire and mortar fire was "little to no resistance" either.
My mother worked with one of the officers who helped with the planning for D Day, after the war . He said they expected to have 30 % casualties , 30 in 100 !
I wish they could remake this film with some attention paid to Juno Beach. The Canadian troops had almost as tough opposition as in Omaha, but because a good portion of their tanks made it ashore, including Hobart's Funnies specialized tanks that the Canadian Army was smart enough to accept when offered by the British, they were able to punch through quickly and made the best progress toward their objectives of any of the invading forces that day.
You’re implying if US forces “accepted” Hobart’s funnies, then Omaha would have been easier? You think that German defenses was all that made Omaha so deadly? The terrain itself, the shape of the beach, the sand bar, the waves at Omaha beach was a lot rougher compared to Juno, rendering most of the DD tanks useless. Which makes me wonder why you think the British tanks would have fared better at Omaha when Most of the DD tanks sank outright due to rough waves. There was a reason why Omaha was given to the Americans.
@@TheLouHam The terrain was wrong for tanks because that was the wrong beach. US troops were supposed to land a few miles away (east or west, I don't remember). But because of smoke and chaos, the boats made a mistake and arrived at the wrong place. The tanks had to follow the men, mistake or not, and they sank in deep water.
@@TheLouHam and if you're implying that omaha was given to the Americans because it was the toughest, you're a fucking moron bud. thats gotta be one of the worst Americanized bs opinions ive heard on WW2
I am a Hongkonger & saw this movie more than 40 years ago. This was the longest movie at that time. There was a break for people to toilet & buy a drink.
My Grandfather was also part of D-Day he was part of the one's who storming the beaches thankfully he makes it back alive in his 90's now but still telling me his stories about that fateful day
I was in Normandy in 2006. Omaha is so barren at low tide roughly 300-400 yards of open beach. I just pictured in my head all the obstacles, burning vehicles, hundreds if not thousands of dead, dying, wounded, and shellshocked GIs, pure chaos all while being mercilessly being slaughtered by German MG42s, rifle fire, mortars, mines and devastating artillery. It's a very somber place and very humbling that France interned our dead on the shores they died liberating from tyranny.
so funny ! pffffff and for the real people touched with this war for me son of deported women and educated with him for me you are the devil stop thinking your are hero punisher ^^ hahahaha o'much people your army rape in this war han ? fucking pig ! oncle sam are happy i thinks !
You wouldn't have seen thousands of dead people 😂 each division landed about 9 companies in the first wave, a regiments worth of men. They would have had to suffer 100 percent deaths. It was really more like 50-90 percent casualties, which works out to about 18-30 percent dead.
Saving private ryan depicted only the scene when breakthrough was achieved, but this film depicted from the first wave and throughout the day under heavy fire until breakthrough was achieved by the only few.
At this point, Bradley seriously considered pulling out of dday and leaving the first three waves there. It was the Destroyer captains, legends that they were, who saved the day by nearly running aground and firing practically point blank into costal fortifications. This was THE pivotal moment of the battle.
In the sequence when everyone is running across the beach, if you look closely at the bottom of the screen you can see the shadow of the camera and its operator as it moves up the beach.
This scene depicts part of the second wave of troops at Omaha. The 1,450 assault troops in the first wave suffered very heavy casualties, as high as 50% to 90% in some companies, and were pinned down in many places. Dog Green sector, as accurately depicted in SPR, suffered greatly. The larger second wave suffered greatly, too, but were more able to clear a few paths through German defenses, and help re-inforce positions. Kindly do not state that this video is inaccurate compared to SPR. It is very accurate. The second wave at Omaha Beach suffered almost as many casualties as the first wave. Even the third wave, landing an hour or two after the first two, came under attack, and suffered casualties. It was a terrible, terrible day. But despite awful losses, they got it done. Bless them all.
i think the only thing that makes SPR "more" accurate would be the shear portrayal of violence and bloodshed. for a film from the 60s this is impressive. omaha had the highest casualties out of all 5 beachfronts. dont know exact number but well over 3,000 men died on omaha alone
Another thing is everyone in the movie uses an M1 Carbine, While one of the guns used during the landings there seems to be an abundance of them outnumbering M1s and even Thompsons
most realistic d day scene besides that they got the beach distance wrong. It was much bigger and they ran over 400 yards. Most got off the boats in chest high water too.
Optimistic Whovian Am i? I don’t think i’m saying this. Although i haven’t seen any accounts of self-immolating flamethrowers among 2nd Rangers during Omaha landing. Possible, i guess, however improbable. Don’t get me wrong, SPR did a great job on being as close to realism as a Hollywood blockbuster could have. Still, it’s being overly dramatic in some aspects and ignores some others. One of the things this movie shows more accurately is the beach itself and the obstacles on it. More intense artillery fire also. SPR was focused on machine gun fire for some reason.
For realism, I would recommend the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan. My grandfather stormed the beach and he found the film disturbing for how much it evoked his experiences.
@@Sardonacthe terror was more accurate in Spr but the accuracy of how the battle looked and how everything went down is more accurate in the longest day
my great grandpa was an raf pilot he got shot down and was a prisoner of war for 7 months and escaped when the Nazis took over the camp from Japan he is always in my heart
Taurus Londoño Lmao you do realize that there were virtually no photos of the battle until afterwards and even those were hardly visible, and there was ABSOLUTELY no footage of the initial landings? Battles weren’t recorded in world wars lmao. All the vets said Saving Private Ryan was the closest thing to what it was actually like. This movie did a good job, but the technology of its time obviously prevented it from being quite as immersive as SPR. Use your head.
My grandpa always told me this movie came the closest to the real landings. SPR is a cool movie, but the 2 bunkers that were shooting at the troops never existed.
I don't understand the argument that this is a more realistic depiction of Omaha beach than Saving Private Ryan. If anyone has seen the interview with Frank DeVita or the interviews with survivors of that day, getting off those LCVPs was a lottery. SPR has inaccuracies (like the distance and time it takes to get off the beach) but when you hear Frank DeVita describe the 1st 15-20 men at the front of the boat get hit when they first landed, this depiction doesn't hold up
Spr was more dramatic and was inaccurate with the blood and body parts. While this one depicts Omaha beach perfectly and captures the men running out of the boats and trying to make it up the beach. This is proven by some real footage of d day so that’s why the longest day is more accurate, you can’t just rely on one veterans experience. But SPR is still super accurate.
"The Longest Day" and "Saving Private Ryan" do capture the Omaha Beach landings accurately in their own way. This film captures the landings accurately as they occurred, yet omit the horrors that the soldiers had endured upon landing, while Spielberg's film captures the exact horrific devastation and chaos that the soldiers on D-Day had experienced.
"The film was shot at several French locations, including the Île de Ré, Saleccia beach in Saint-Florent, Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (filling in for Ouistreham), Les Studios de Boulogne in Boulogne-Billancourt, and the actual locations of Pegasus Bridge near Bénouville, Sainte-Mère-Église, and Pointe du Hoc."
They are supposed to be guys whose landing craft got Sunk. They were hoping to get picked up and taken back to the ships! Even if not wounded, they would have lost all their gear. They would have been combat ineffective. Since the landing craft were headed back to the ships to pick up more men, some did rescue men in the water. (There were also a very few dedicated Rescue Boats.) Some men swam, or were washed ashore and joined the fight. Some Drowned. It's in the Book the Longest Day, and other books about the D-Day Landings on June 6th 1944.
This biographical film was excellent for showing accurate reactions from high command on both sides. Omaha beach scene was filmed the best it was for the time and also keeping it from being too graphic. Classification is everything. Not many R rated films break box office records.
You could genuinely trick thousands of people with this "footage", they would think its real d'day because of how realistic it is, and that it looks a lot like what d'day footage would look.
The book The Longest Day was written by Cornelius Ryan after he interviewed more than one thousand people who were there. The movie agrees with the book more than 95%. He also wrote the book A Bridge Too Far. His 3rd book, The Last Battle is about the Russians taking Berlin.
Aunque Ribert Mitchum no sea el capitan Miller hizo un gran trabajo en esta pelicula. Que suerte tuvimos los que no tuvimos que desembarcar en Omaha Beach.
His arm was blown off. He stopped to look around, found it, and then went off. It is true. Stephen Ambrose interviewed a surviving American G.I. who saw that happen.
It wasn't just his hand it was his entire forearm, and I daresay he hoped they would be able to reattach it or at least that's how he handled the shock in the moment.
His entire forearm blown off, and is in such shock he picks it up. Not to mention the scene where machine guns mow down an entire landing craft of young boys, and another young boy holding his open entrails crying for his mother. Countless dead bodies on the beach, artillery blowing off limbs. The SPR scene is actually more intense than this. You need to not twist these scenes to fit whatever stupid point you're trying to make you mongoloid.
"There are two types of soldiers that are going to stay on this beach, those that are dead and those that are going to die. Now get off your ass, you're the fighting 16th"
The sad thing was that infantry units had immigrated from national guard units and these units recruited and trained ed groups of men using the buddy system. So that you had several men from the same town fighting and dying in the same infantry company.
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My grandfather, Nicholas Herman Gieschen Senior of Wilmington, North Carolina was there at Omaha beach during the first wave. He was an engineer. He died when I was 5 or 6 years old. He survived Omaha beach, Saint Mare Eglise, St. Lo, Falasie Gap, Fighting into Belgium and Luxembourg, Trapped in Bastoge during the Battle of the Bulge, crossed the Rhine and witnessed the horrors of the holocaust when he helped to liberate a concentration camp in Germany. May he rest in peace
Did he see the gas chambers and large ovens and starving prisoners?
@@apache-90 yes he did, but like alot of other soldiers back then what they saw they rarely spoke of afterwards, he mentioned it to my mother only and no one else
he may have known ralph crawford, also a combat engineer . he went on to be the postmaster at dilley , texas. i got to meet him in 1969. i was in dilley and had just read the book. saw his name in the back and went to the post office to get acquainted. he told me stories of the landing. nice guy. lived to his 90s.
God bless his soul. May he rest in peace in Heaven.
Total respect I was at the beaches two weeks ago very emotional and humbling --23yrs a Royal Marine
My grandfather fought in the pacific and died before I was born. My dad raised me showing all the WW2 movies he’d watched growing up. I remember watching this with him when I was in middle school, and in high school we watched Saving Private Ryan together. A lot of good memories, and after he too passed away, I keep alive my love for military history and respect for veterans.
Try the song, Primo Victoria by Sabaton. It's a song about D Day
When my grandpa arrived at Normandy on D-Day +3 there were still bodies floating in the water. Can't imagine what the beach looked like.
Styx Gamer Imagine the smell too.
@@bluemarshall6180 I dont think lynyrd skynyrd was around yet.
Your grandfather is lucky, he's not one of the thousands men who's being sent straight into the beach and killed by artillery and machine gun
@@bluemarshall6180 Well there were immense amounts of transport and armoured vehicles rolling in so it may have been blotted out, + artillery guns, ships and odorents dissolving in sea water. This is not, however, to downplay the horrid scenery he must've encountered while arriving. We can(or not) only imagine.
Kesha Gwen Mobile Bangbang he’s lucky to be in that time period living in America today is pure miserable I only don’t leave because my family refuses to. You got people of color on the rise with their racism. People of this color that fought for the war hating themselves now and feeling like they should be ashamed of themselves because liberal media tells them too and you got them believing they got some privilege that they don’t really have based off skin color.
My grandma was living in Belgium when she heard the Allies had landed. She said the collective sigh of relief was palpable and they were close to dancing in the streets. She still reminds me of D-Day and VE Day
The dancing stopped when civilians were killed and property destroyed to engage the Germans.
VE day means what ?
For those arguing in this comment section The Longest Day was made just 18 years after the actual Normandy landings so it's very authentic depicting D Day since many actors were veterans of that battle
Isn’t it possible that in reality it more closely resembled Saving Private Ryan’s version, but this movie was constrained by technology of its time, the sensibilities of what was considered “appropriate for public consumption” and the fact that they had 1/50th of the shooting budget? Something tells me that the snarky banter between the General and the private going on @2:55 wasn’t that common place. Also I doubt that there were many Generals personally storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Just because there were veterans acting in this movie doesn’t mean that the movie is completely accurate.
@@urban1413 lmao yes let's send the generals to secure the beach!
@@kingcobra7183 there were numerous generals present during the landings, one even created the motto for the modern day rangers on omaha beach
wasn't he roosevelt's son ??
@@tommyatkins2527 Yeah
This role could have brought back memories for actor Eddie Albert. During WW 2 he drove a landing craft at the bloody invasion of Tarawa Island. He won the Bronze Star with Combat V for rescuing over 70 wounded and trapped Marines while under enemy fire. A real life hero.
I saw him on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. He was still upset he couldn't save more of the Marines.
My grandfather was in world war 2 and d day , he had his toe blown up and he was hospitalized for a year , he made it home !!! And he just died 4/9/20 , he turned 99 today , I miss him sm
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This was only a mere 18 years after the actual battle, brilliant movie for the time honestly. Still is.
“Oh what the world has done to itself.”
This was honestly one of the best war films I ever watched. As I think about today being 75 years since we landed in Normandy and thousands of soldiers died fighting for freedom and died serving their countries and fighting for liberation. My great grandfather fought in D-Day and he saw a lot of his friends die when he was on the beach. He passed away 11 years before I was born. May all of our fallen heroes Rest In Peace and we will always remember them as today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day
I was stationed aboard the USS Muliphen AKA 61 at the time this scene was shot. I was a Engineman on one of the landing boats. they were called MIKE Boats with 2 GM6-71 Diesel Engines, my job was to keep them running. It was an experience I have and will never forget, I was 18 yr old kid at the time. We were at that location for almost 3 wks. during the filming. Corsica, France 1961
Don Wallace you should post a much longer commentary about your experience, there are thousands waiting to hear from you and 90% of the people that post stuff just make pointless comments...where we’re the cameras? What did they pay you? Was the weather the same as D-Day? Etc.
@@mr.zondide2746 , as for as pay, 20th Century gave the 6th fleet credit for participating, we were told it was good PR and might inspire new recruits. Much of the cameras were above the beach with with the Directors and Military Officers helping out with the filming. Actually there isn't enough room here to do it justice as to what we did. It was an experience that has been with me all these yrs. Before the film was released to the public we were privileged to see the film. It was a long movie and after our scenes were shown, many of us went on about our business on the ship. Thank you for asking.
At the magnificent Saleccia beach no less! the Cap Corse It can be easily spotted at 0:53 on the top right, a timeless blooper.
it's real your army rape the french population and kill us after because my grandmother and lot of proof of this facts crying you are not the heros in this war maybe in hooliwood but in fact russian are better ! mmmm sorry oncle sam !
I got to see Normandy when I was around 8 years old while living in Germany. I was pretty lucky to have gone. I got to see museums, the beaches, Pointe Du Hoc and shell craters. But when I saw the graveyard I broke down in tears as there were so many grave markers. And what is even sadder is that some did not have names on them because they couldn't find their names. It was truly a depressing scene. So to all who have served in the military, I salute you.
Huh, I did too. I was 8 years old exactly and living around Stuttgart at the time; the BSA was holding some sort of massive ceremony in Normandy and so of course my family and I headed off with the rest of the local Cub Scouts to be there. Still remember almost everything from that trip like it happened last year, near exactly like you describe it - we went to Pont du Hoc first, Utah the next day, and the final ceremony at the cemetery by Omaha was finally held on the third. Did you happen to go there around 2011?
@@autokrator_ Oh no you were 8 around 3 years before me lol. I went there in 2014
One of the most moving scenes in a movie - was the beginning of _Saving Private Ryan_ where as an old man - he finds the Captains Grave amongst all those other graves.
They filmed that at the real cemetery.
Saving Private Ryan opening cemetery scene
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Regarding D'day, "Saving Private Ryan" may be filled with the best tricks and most realistic Special effects modern technology has to offer in the filming industry. But I've got to say that "The Longest Day" did much more justice to the story. If not mistaken, it's still by far the only movie that digs into the details of D'day at Normandy during WW2.
Saving Private Ryan isn’t filled with the best tricks and they aren’t realistic
The Longest Day is the story of the D-Day landings. Saving Private Ryan is a Spielberg schmaltz movie framed by the D-Day landings as a setting. Considering everything outside of the first 10 minutes or so is fiction in SPR.
But SPR led to Band of Brothers, which is excellent.
@@TellYouHwaet
Saving Private Ryan gives a much more accurate depiction of combat and especially close combat in WWII where the battle scenes are probably as close to seeing real life combat as you'll get to on film.
The story might be fiction, but the way soldiers fight and how they tried their best to get all the vehicles, weapons, uniforms etc to be as accurate as possible really made it one of the best if not the best war movies around when it comes to showing the brutality of soldiers fighting each other on the battlefield.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ I don't know, "the way the soldiers fight" seems to imply Miller's Rangers, supposedly better trained and a cut above average infantrymen, have zero knowledge or experience with small unit tactics, Reiben is mutinous and insubordinate, and no one seems able to stay on-mission. Of course all but one of them are dead at the end, so maybe "fight like you're in a Hollywood movie and you'll probably get annihilated" may be an unintended message.
@@UzumakiNaruto_ You are most definitely wrong. The longest day shows way more accurate combat, especially when the soldiers get shot on the beach. They just fall like their body was shut down by a bullet and it’s not as dramatic as saving private Ryan. Don’t get me wrong saving private Ryan is accurate but not as accurate as the longest day.
75 years ago today my father was on the landing ship waiting to go ashore with the second wave of the 29th Division. He said the worst part was being so seasick. Even though it was the second wave, the man next to him on the landing craft when it hit the beach was killed.
Bob ap Bob how old are you lmao?
People today just have no idea what hell is truly like
@@taroman7100 people in multiple parts of Earth right now are experiencing hell. Not privileged Americans of course (including myself). But there are definitely people alive right now going through the worst things imaginable and not imaginable. The hell of war, especially battles like this where soldiers are sent into near-certain death, can barely be imagined or simulated, not fully. Being in mortal danger at all times for very long periods is something you can only really know from experiencing it.
you grand father she tell you is rape the womens after the war compar to russian army she respect the womens ?
fuck you oncle sam ! seriously ! you not the heros of this war stop the bullshit please and respect the honnor of you grand father she fight for oncle sam bro !
2:04 there is a small blooper in this part, as the sand is sent into the air you can see the shadow of the camera mount going past at the bottom of the shot.
And a non blooper is that they managed to have the tank traps facing the right way, unlike Saving Private Ryan beach landing.
You're right!
Classic 60’s blooper
"Damn, camera shadow is in the shot! Okay, let's roll this this scene again from the top!"
its amazing how Saving Private Ryan and this movie depicted Omaha beach in 2 very different ways but neither one is wrong
Because in reality it was even worst, that was depicted in saving private Ryan
@@Almagells because spr was more dramatic. This was more realistic
@@AtticTapes14 Spr was more like a mix of both.
Cornelius Ryan and Darryl Zanuck disliked each other from the start but it all came to a head when Ryan accused Zanuck of making stuff up for the movie. The studio 20th century fox made concessions all in Zanuck's favor, why not, he was producing it. Ryan hated the finished product and wanted his name removed from the project. One of those "making stuff up" was Zanuck's portrayal of Omaha. Spielberg showed us the carnage of Omaha but he failed to show us the next 2 waves that also came in. Also he didn't show the deadly 2+ hour stalemate that took place on many sectors of Omaha including dog green. He probably wanted the momentum to keep going for his movie but to me it's a pretty big gaffe. Realism over accuracy.
Saving Private Ryan is wrong
Favorite war movie as a kid. I'm realizing a lot of things wrong with inaccuracies in this film but still one of my favorites. I' m curious what the actual Omaha veterans thought of this movie when it came out. They would have been in their early 40s by then.
Eddie Albert was a Higgins boat driver at the Battle of Tarawa… and went above and beyond the call of duty at that battle. I can only imagine his thoughts portraying this scene.
Cornelius Ryan write the book this movie is based on. He interviewed hundreds of people on both sides then wrote the book.
A Bridge To Far and The Last Battle are good, too.
Zanuck did an admirable job with the Longest Day. The book Ryan wrote on a Bridge too Far was equally as good as Ryan’s Longest Day, but the movie fell far short. It was made during a time when the public was more concentrated on the personalities of the actors than the story itself. Many of the characters who played important figures like Generals Gavin and Taylor were just not believable. Ryan O’Neil, Robert Redford and Elliott Gould just did not measure up to the riles they played!
@Walter Dumbrowski You might read Martin Caidin's book The Tigers are Burning.
my grandfather never complained about his position as a b17 pilot. one reason he mentioned was that he had to sleep in his cold plane on an english airfield on christmas of 1944 while the 101st was surrounded. the other was that he had to fly on D-Day and knew it wouldn't be good for the guys on the ground.
I personally think this film’s depiction of Omaha beach is the best, most accurate depiction of this battle in cinema. It’s scientifically impossible to be ripped apart by an MG42 at the range at which the troops in Saving Private Ryan were. Omaha was given the nickname “Bloody Omaha” because of its casualties, but people don’t understand that Omaha took forever to get off of. It was the most heavily defended beachhead that morning, and troops were there for hours while the other landings were moving inland. Saving Private Ryan is a great look at what the mind and memories of these men would have been like in the moment, nothing but pure chaos. The Longest Day does a better job of showing the reality of the situation and the less “glamorous” reality of conflict. Much respect and honor to these brave men as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the operation.
Tripp Sallee I hear you. I thought private Ryan was over dramatic and over done
@@AtticTapes14 yeah but if your going to have a d day movie scene then might as well make it accurate so it can be better.
I don't understand you. You call this the most accurate depiction yet you correctly point out that Omaha was a nightmare in trying to get off the beach and the troops were stuck there for hours under constant fire. This depiction literally shows the entire American force just sprinting across the beach with little to no resistance. Please explain how that is accurate? I must be missing something.
@@chase5860 They moved across the sandy section, then were pinned for hours at the base of the hills. As is shown here (they even mention being pinned on the beach at 4:00).
Don't know how you think all of that gunfire and mortar fire was "little to no resistance" either.
Given the footage of D Day, this seems like the most accurate recreation.
My mother worked with one of the officers who helped with the planning for D Day, after the war . He said they expected to have 30 % casualties , 30 in 100 !
I wish they could remake this film with some attention paid to Juno Beach. The Canadian troops had almost as tough opposition as in Omaha, but because a good portion of their tanks made it ashore, including Hobart's Funnies specialized tanks that the Canadian Army was smart enough to accept when offered by the British, they were able to punch through quickly and made the best progress toward their objectives of any of the invading forces that day.
You’re implying if US forces “accepted” Hobart’s funnies, then Omaha would have been easier? You think that German defenses was all that made Omaha so deadly? The terrain itself, the shape of the beach, the sand bar, the waves at Omaha beach was a lot rougher compared to Juno, rendering most of the DD tanks useless. Which makes me wonder why you think the British tanks would have fared better at Omaha when Most of the DD tanks sank outright due to rough waves.
There was a reason why Omaha was given to the Americans.
@@TheLouHam The terrain was wrong for tanks because that was the wrong beach. US troops were supposed to land a few miles away (east or west, I don't remember). But because of smoke and chaos, the boats made a mistake and arrived at the wrong place. The tanks had to follow the men, mistake or not, and they sank in deep water.
@@TheLouHam and if you're implying that omaha was given to the Americans because it was the toughest, you're a fucking moron bud. thats gotta be one of the worst Americanized bs opinions ive heard on WW2
False
@@nicolasennabli6599 No. It was the RIGHT beach
I am a Hongkonger & saw this movie more than 40 years ago. This was the longest movie at that time. There was a break for people to toilet & buy a drink.
RIP Eddie Albert. A bonafide war hero.
I was actually fortunate enough to ride on one of these landing crafts back in the 1960s in Okinawa.
Teacher: we’re going to Normandy!!
Girls: Wooo french wine and baguette!!
Boys:
Lmao
Either way was surely to make lots of friends
Boy: Oh my God ! I don't want to die.
PT Chen
Girl: Omg a roach! I don’t wanna die!
This comment gets old..
My Grandfather was also part of D-Day he was part of the one's who storming the beaches thankfully he makes it back alive in his 90's now but still telling me his stories about that fateful day
Stop
The sheer number of actual actors engaged in a scene like this is something that is severely missing nowadays
I was in Normandy in 2006. Omaha is so barren at low tide roughly 300-400 yards of open beach. I just pictured in my head all the obstacles, burning vehicles, hundreds if not thousands of dead, dying, wounded, and shellshocked GIs, pure chaos all while being mercilessly being slaughtered by German MG42s, rifle fire, mortars, mines and devastating artillery. It's a very somber place and very humbling that France interned our dead on the shores they died liberating from tyranny.
next time rest in usa thanks ! ^^
so funny ! pffffff and for the real people touched with this war for me son of deported women and educated with him for me you are the devil stop thinking your are hero punisher ^^ hahahaha o'much people your army rape in this war han ? fucking pig ! oncle sam are happy i thinks !
You wouldn't have seen thousands of dead people 😂 each division landed about 9 companies in the first wave, a regiments worth of men. They would have had to suffer 100 percent deaths. It was really more like 50-90 percent casualties, which works out to about 18-30 percent dead.
1:10 would you look at that they got the landing craft mines set up the right way, unlike in Saving Private Ryan.
The classic 1962 movie, ‘The Longest Day’ will be changed up 34 years later into the graphic war film, ‘Saving Private Ryan’.
I saw this for the first time in high school during my Modern History class. I had learned lots of things that I hadn't known prior to me watching it.
Anyone else notice the shadow of the camera - starts at about 2:02? Can really be seen against the smoke from the explosives.
Maybe from tbe cameraman
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Saving private ryan depicted only the scene when breakthrough was achieved, but this film depicted from the first wave and throughout the day under heavy fire until breakthrough was achieved by the only few.
My great great Uncle, served in the US Army at D Day.
I feel like if saving private Ryan and this movie was merged it would be the best interpretation of d day in film history
you cant merge two films when they already each stand on their own. You would ruin it.
1:35 Lol Why is that guy waving at the camera? Nice movie by the way.. I love movies about WW2
When my dad arive to Normandy Beaches of normandy 1944 Omaha beach He was 27 Yrs old
At this point, Bradley seriously considered pulling out of dday and leaving the first three waves there. It was the Destroyer captains, legends that they were, who saved the day by nearly running aground and firing practically point blank into costal fortifications. This was THE pivotal moment of the battle.
Absolutely true.
In the sequence when everyone is running across the beach, if you look closely at the bottom of the screen you can see the shadow of the camera and its operator as it moves up the beach.
I saw that
on 2:02 you can see the shadow of the camera on the bottom of the screen...
i had to replay coz of ur comment ^_^
xD
In 1960 this movie its good for me bro
Alejandro Lopez its a drone from the future. 😆
This scene depicts part of the second wave of troops at Omaha. The 1,450 assault troops in the first wave suffered very heavy casualties, as high as 50% to 90% in some companies, and were pinned down in many places.
Dog Green sector, as accurately depicted in SPR, suffered greatly.
The larger second wave suffered greatly, too, but were more able to clear a few paths through German defenses, and help re-inforce positions.
Kindly do not state that this video is inaccurate compared to SPR. It is very accurate. The second wave at Omaha Beach suffered almost as many casualties as the first wave.
Even the third wave, landing an hour or two after the first two, came under attack, and suffered casualties.
It was a terrible, terrible day. But despite awful losses, they got it done. Bless them all.
i think the only thing that makes SPR "more" accurate would be the shear portrayal of violence and bloodshed. for a film from the 60s this is impressive. omaha had the highest casualties out of all 5 beachfronts. dont know exact number but well over 3,000 men died on omaha alone
Another thing is everyone in the movie uses an M1 Carbine, While one of the guns used during the landings there seems to be an abundance of them outnumbering M1s and even Thompsons
most realistic d day scene besides that they got the beach distance wrong. It was much bigger and they ran over 400 yards. Most got off the boats in chest high water too.
“Most Realistic.”
I can’t criticize it for being an old film but... no this isn’t the most realistic depiction,
@@jiffyjelly1 It kinda is...
@@jiffyjelly1 Which one is more realistic? 'Cause it's certainly somewhat more realistic, than "Saving Private Ryan".
Are you saying nobody lost their limbs or got engulfed in their own flame thrower explosion? @@KidoKoin
Optimistic Whovian Am i? I don’t think i’m saying this. Although i haven’t seen any accounts of self-immolating flamethrowers among 2nd Rangers during Omaha landing. Possible, i guess, however improbable.
Don’t get me wrong, SPR did a great job on being as close to realism as a Hollywood blockbuster could have. Still, it’s being overly dramatic in some aspects and ignores some others.
One of the things this movie shows more accurately is the beach itself and the obstacles on it. More intense artillery fire also. SPR was focused on machine gun fire for some reason.
Here it is 8/2023 and I'm just starting this movie on DVD. Was trying to find the clip with Clint Eastwood in it.
This is the most realistic D-Day movie I have ever seen
For realism, I would recommend the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan. My grandfather stormed the beach and he found the film disturbing for how much it evoked his experiences.
@@Sardonac
Not saying Longest Day is perfect but I'd rate it much higher than Saving Private Ryan as a D-Day movie and a war film in general.
@@Sardonacthe terror was more accurate in Spr but the accuracy of how the battle looked and how everything went down is more accurate in the longest day
I have the DVD The Longest Day.
What are you telling us for?
my great grandpa was an raf pilot he got shot down and was a prisoner of war for 7 months and escaped when the Nazis took over the camp from Japan he is always in my heart
If you watch closely at about 1:30 to maybe 1:38, there’s a guy waving at the camera as he flails away in the water.
At the camera? A giant movie making no no.
he want to say "hey pa, I'm at the Omaha Beach..." second before get headshot by the bullets of MG42...
My uncle survived Omaha beach and the battle of the bulge got a bronze star and lived to be 100 he was a great man.
3:04 that’s the kid who played Laslo in that TV Show Combat in this episode called The Glory Among Men
For a 1962 movie it’s actually realistic the explosion are so big and look so real
Yeah, I'm worried about the actors, they are so close to the explosions! Filming what in a safe way was a true feat
tape ina france you have real video in colors reconstitution in colors real picture of this century free on youtube
compared to saving private Ryan this seems tame and underwhelming. still a classic though
Saving Pvt, Smith is better....
This is far more realistic than SPR. Compare with photos and (scant) footage.
Well...that's just like...your opinion, man
The Dude abides.
Taurus Londoño Lmao you do realize that there were virtually no photos of the battle until afterwards and even those were hardly visible, and there was ABSOLUTELY no footage of the initial landings? Battles weren’t recorded in world wars lmao. All the vets said Saving Private Ryan was the closest thing to what it was actually like. This movie did a good job, but the technology of its time obviously prevented it from being quite as immersive as SPR. Use your head.
Eddie Albert was decorated after rescuing Marines that were being cut down by Japanese fire at Betio.This scene reminded that battle,perhaps.
My grandpa always told me this movie came the closest to the real landings.
SPR is a cool movie, but the 2 bunkers that were shooting at the troops never existed.
This movie should be shown for free for some weeks leading up and after June 5th the 80th anniversary of D-day
I don't understand the argument that this is a more realistic depiction of Omaha beach than Saving Private Ryan. If anyone has seen the interview with Frank DeVita or the interviews with survivors of that day, getting off those LCVPs was a lottery. SPR has inaccuracies (like the distance and time it takes to get off the beach) but when you hear Frank DeVita describe the 1st 15-20 men at the front of the boat get hit when they first landed, this depiction doesn't hold up
Spr was more dramatic and was inaccurate with the blood and body parts. While this one depicts Omaha beach perfectly and captures the men running out of the boats and trying to make it up the beach. This is proven by some real footage of d day so that’s why the longest day is more accurate, you can’t just rely on one veterans experience. But SPR is still super accurate.
Much more authentic portrayal than Saving Ryan's Privates.
"The Longest Day" and "Saving Private Ryan" do capture the Omaha Beach landings accurately in their own way. This film captures the landings accurately as they occurred, yet omit the horrors that the soldiers had endured upon landing, while Spielberg's film captures the exact horrific devastation and chaos that the soldiers on D-Day had experienced.
my great grandfather was interviewed for this movie because he participated in d day
2:55 Peter Helm (right) This actor was also a guest on the American TV program Combat.
You can see the shade of the camera on the car shooting the scene, did they film on the real beaches or where?
"The film was shot at several French locations, including the Île de Ré, Saleccia beach in Saint-Florent, Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (filling in for Ouistreham), Les Studios de Boulogne in Boulogne-Billancourt, and the actual locations of Pegasus Bridge near Bénouville, Sainte-Mère-Église, and Pointe du Hoc."
@@whiteknightcat and the polish border where the germans went through? I know its a different thing but also i been looking for it
Not as graphic as Saving Private Ryan but you get the same idea. Lots of big stars in this movie.
An extra soldier is waving at the camera @1:35 from water. I don't know what he is saying but probably something like "Hi Mom!!"
no hes asking for help
Starting at about 2:02, you can see the shadow of the camera on the bottom of the screen as it climbs the beach alongside the actors.
Got a couple of those. I'm sure the director is screaming not to look at the camera but they can't help themselves
There's a guy who looks like he's wearing shades too at about 3:45 in the water @@patwiggins6969
They are supposed to be guys whose landing craft got Sunk. They were hoping to get picked up and taken back to the ships!
Even if not wounded, they would have lost all their gear. They would have been combat ineffective.
Since the landing craft were headed back to the ships to pick up more men, some did rescue men in the water. (There were also a very few dedicated Rescue Boats.)
Some men swam, or were washed ashore and joined the fight.
Some Drowned.
It's in the Book the Longest Day, and other books about the D-Day Landings on June 6th 1944.
The Great Crusade Of 1944 Against Evil...… Bless Our Gallant Men
Motivated by some post-war interests more than Europe's freedom.
Nah, no crusade against evil, just a messy war with messy ends
Sorry but war isnt black and white like that, it isn't good vs evil dispite what they teach you
There’s no such thing as good vs evil in war
Both sides were equally evil
2:00 watch as the camera follows the GI 's struggling to reach dry sand under heavy enemy fire!
My great grandfather was in dday at omaha beach in the first wave and survied but later years he died of disease
Today is 80 years since D Day happened ❤🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️
God bless the brave men who fought on that beach kids nowadays have no idea
This biographical film was excellent for showing accurate reactions from high command on both sides. Omaha beach scene was filmed the best it was for the time and also keeping it from being too graphic. Classification is everything. Not many R rated films break box office records.
You could genuinely trick thousands of people with this "footage", they would think its real d'day because of how realistic it is, and that it looks a lot like what d'day footage would look.
MiKeSHaTtEr yeah cgi can look pretty terrible. Non here.
@@kstreet7438 cgi makes it more entertaining, not realistic
Flaws and all a classic movie with epic cast
"Heavy casualties, sir."
*literally most of the men running up the beach with no problem*
They couldn't show that back then
Historically losing even 10% of a unit really impacts the cohesiveness of a unit and is considered heavy casualties.
Looked the same in the d day footage but they got killed by bombs and we’re getting shot so still heavy casualties
The book The Longest Day was written by Cornelius Ryan after he interviewed more than one thousand people who were there. The movie agrees with the book more than 95%. He also wrote the book A Bridge Too Far. His 3rd book, The Last Battle is about the Russians taking Berlin.
I watched the movie on 2004. I like it!
Eddie Albert should have been considered for a higher medal than he got for his actions on Tarawa. Incredible
This movie should be remade with Saving Private Ryan visuals.
Obviously not as intense and horrific like it is in Saving Private Ryan, but for the early 60s this is still pretty amazing.
@@morellif36 TH-cam video footage showed it
@@morellif36 saving pvt ryan is super fucking inaccurate
@@morellif36 are u retarded
Because spr made over dramatized omaha
@@morellif36 the footage that exists
"There it is, Omaha Beach straight ahead." Ya think?
"Stand by." What else were they going to do?
Aunque Ribert Mitchum no sea el capitan Miller hizo un gran trabajo en esta pelicula. Que suerte tuvimos los que no tuvimos que desembarcar en Omaha Beach.
My dad survived landing at Omaha beach thank Christ
こんな時代に凄い戦争映画良く出来たなぁ、素晴らしい映画です😊
2:29 whats his rank? seems to be the same as the man reading the report at 4:02
Colonel.
I heard from a soldier who was there, he said it was like opening the gates of hell.
Before Saving Private Ryan, we had The Longest Day and The Big Red One.
yes two, more accurate, and better movies . (:
Anyone know where i can watch this movie online without having to pay for it
Love the part where the drowning troops are waving at the cameraman for help
The invasion was on June 6 1944
scope of the beach portrayed in this movie is far better than the SPR opening obviously nowhere near the production quality
The longest day: a hard fighting scene
SPR: a... Is that guy just carrying his hand?
His arm was blown off. He stopped to look around, found it, and then went off. It is true. Stephen Ambrose interviewed a surviving American G.I. who saw that happen.
It wasn't just his hand it was his entire forearm, and I daresay he hoped they would be able to reattach it or at least that's how he handled the shock in the moment.
His entire forearm blown off, and is in such shock he picks it up. Not to mention the scene where machine guns mow down an entire landing craft of young boys, and another young boy holding his open entrails crying for his mother. Countless dead bodies on the beach, artillery blowing off limbs. The SPR scene is actually more intense than this. You need to not twist these scenes to fit whatever stupid point you're trying to make you mongoloid.
If you compare the longest day to actuall footage it looks more realistic than saving private ryan
True
there isnt any surviving omaha first wave footage but ok. there are 11 surviving pictures though. they are called the "magnificent eleven".
@@strazed1 still looks more realistic as that is probably what it looked like for the first wave
The shot at 1:55 is just gorgeous
Who would that general on the ship at the end there have been?
BobaFett MTB General Norman Cota
Lt. General Omar Bradley. He was overall commanding general of all forces that day.
Eddie Albert , (0.46) was of course awarded the Bronze star for rescuing marines in WW2.
"There are two types of soldiers that are going to stay on this beach, those that are dead and those that are going to die. Now get off your ass, you're the fighting 16th"
It’s amazing so many were willing to sacrifice their lives to shorten the war by a few weeks.
General Norman Cota from the 28 or 29 ID showed outstanding leadership at Omaha beach.
Wasn't talking about private Ryan. More like Lord of the rings and infinity war. Those movies had waves of cgi characters
Muy buena pelicula. con mucho contenido desearia verla nuevamente
The sad thing was that infantry units had immigrated from national guard units and these units recruited and trained ed groups of men using the buddy system. So that you had several men from the same town fighting and dying in the same infantry company.