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Jun 12, 2021 · Subject: The Longest Day. I watched this film for the first time today, June 7, 2024, in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6. It is moving and reminded me of the sacrifices our country and people have made for freedom and liberty for all. Important to remember in these troublled times.
The Longest Day: Directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck. With Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault. The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood’s greatest war films, THE LONGEST DAY is a spectacular account of the events leading up to and through the Allied Forces’ invasion of Normandy, France on D-Day (June 6), 1944 to fight the occupying Germans.
The Longest Day. Epic WWII movie recounting the events of the D-Day landings. In English, German and French with some English subtitles.
May 24, 2024 · The Longest Day, American war movie, released in 1962, that was producer Darryl F. Zanuck’s homage to the Allied soldiers who fought in the Normandy Invasion during World War II. The Longest Day centres on the preparations for the Allied invasion of occupied France that was launched on June 6,
Brief Synopsis. The Allied forces launch the D-Day invasion of German-occupied France.
In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Despite bad weather, General Eisenhower gives the okay and the Allies land at Normandy. General Norma ...
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The German military, due to arrogance, ignorance and a sleeping Adolf Hitler, delay their response to the Allied landing, with crippling results. — Jwelch5742. In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France.
Overview. The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach.
