D-Day, June 6, 1944, Remembering With Movies

D-Day, June 6, 1944 could be described by many historians as the single most important day of the 20th Century. American, British, French and Canadian ground forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France in an effort to breach the Atlantic Wall. A series of fortifications built by Nazi Germany along the English Channel. Led first by a massive airborne assault overnight, tens of thousands of Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy in what Cornelius Ryan later titled his book, The Longest Day. The title allegedly comes from German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who commanded the defenses along northern France. Rommel knew that the Allied armies had to be defeated that first day, otherwise, they would succeed in their invasion. Needless to say, D-Day has been the subject of many movies. Saving Private Ryan being the most recent, big-budget film. The collaboration between Steven Speilberg, who produced and directed Private Ryan, and the film?s star, Tom Hanks, led to the HBO mini-series, Band of Brothers, which begins the story of 101st Airborne Division?s Easy Company with their role during the Normandy invasion. Another quirky D-Day film which is a must-see is The Americanization of Emily, starring James Garner and [...]

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