In May 1944 Henry J. F. Miller was sent home, demoted to Lt. Colonel. Six months later he retired from the Army due to physical disability. After leaving the service he took an advisory position with a war plant. In December 1948 he was promoted on the retired list to Brigadier General. One month later, on January 7, 1949, General Miller passed away and was buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery next to his wife who passed away six years earlier.

Tom Selleck is an underated actor

“We both owe that to the men who will be dead in a few weeks.” The gut check that pride and glory have no place in dealing with human lives.

Never get tired of this scene...

My Dad was one of the thousands at Utah beach on June 6. The more i research his role and the older I Get, the more i realise the incredable burden of total command that Eisenhower was under! How he must have thought of that decision the rest of his life! It had to be made!

"A betrayal of the many commands." That's the first time I've heard that phrase.

What an incredible, profound burden to place on one mans shoulders; At your decision, and yours alone, two million men, five thousand ships, ten thousand aircraft, are hurled onto the deadliest beach ever assaulted. And the moment you say GO, you become the most powerless man in Europe. Everything then depends on the 17/18/19 year old boys-men in those boats going ashore and the same men dropping out of the night sky into the dark behind the beaches. I don't see how they did it. "Where do we get such men? Where do we get them?"

The West Point connections were important up to that time, you could get a lot swept under the rug because of that. For Eisenhower to send him home showed how big of an error Miller had made and sent a message to the rest who were in on the planning. They had to do a lot of investigating to see if the plan was even feasible after that incident and conceal that they were sending Miller home. The efforts put into concealing D Day was huge, secrecy and misdirection made it work.

Damn good movie. It never got the credit it deserved.

The small stuff is personal of course. This was a very good movie well cast and well acted. Sellick did a great job with it.

He got off easy. Revealing classified info is a court-martial offense.

Very underrated movie. The best, most factual portrayal of the leadup to D-Day in the Allied high command in southern England. If you're interested in WWII history, particularly in the European Theater of Operations, you must see this movie. You will not be sorry you did!

That kind of behavior would have gotten the General shot if this took place in Russia. Stalin was executing his commanders by the dozen for less. Ike is a great General , he still trying to save some kind of high rank instead of just sending him home in total disgrace.

The burden of leadership is a hard one.

@ 4:10 or 4:11. "It's the details, the small stuff." Send this quote to all my "friends" who told me *don't sweat the small stuff.* Thanks for all your help and insight . . . smarty pants, wise - guys, know - it - alls, and trash - talkers.

Ike was more a politician than a General.....but that how the army worked and still works....its a big political machine as much as war machine

...it's the small stuff... profound.

The is no inner circle.

The fact that the general was seated when Ike rolled in also ought to say something. This guys should have been standing tall and so straight that the wall would seem to be wavy. You are a general (brevet) and stay seated in front of a five star general?

Three officers including another General are on record reporting this guy by the way, not just one guy who's normal working environment is described as any place were he is "surrounded by enemy combatants", and who's combat training and skills were rated among the highest in the world at the time. If you would like another example of the problems regarding security during time of war involving the people 'running the show', look up "The May Incident". It involves an elected official and a bunch of IDIOT newsmen who didn't think it was wrong to reveal or publish Classified Secret information involving submarine operations in the Pacific.

The fact he didn’t stand when Ike entered is shocking and disrespectful

My grandfather was a close friend of Eisenhower.

Read the book by Stephen Ambrose, D-Day June 6, 1944. In it he tells of Eisenhower calling Lt. General Walter Bedell (Beetle) Smith the perfect chief of staff. Would pull the book and give you the page number but I'm still on my morning coffee.

In my humble view, to comment now, all of June 6 1944 dead and gone, I will keep it in what mind set those of June 1944 considered. Officers, especially generals, would care of self advance ment, troops to be cannon fodder. Based on reenact ment, General Miller and his drinking, living it up, he would be self aware more so and self image would take priority over mission and over troops. In the scene with Miller living it up and a world war raging, D-Day Miller was privy to verbally spoken openly in the club due to his drinking, he had it good. Again, him thinking of self, he was a weak leader and cared of his self image, first, more so, only. Eisenhower had to relieve Miller, regardless of friend ship. Miller being true to him SELF, spoke direct, him owed some thing and inner circle, more so of HIM returning state side, a Major. He cared nothing of June 6 and the troops, many to never be officers enjoying "the good stuff". Eisenhower did right as Miller other wise would have been a liability in battle, focused on him SELF and easily risking his objectives for SELF image. Many generals, as reported of in world war 2, like MacArthur, thought of "glory", yet war in it self was violent, rough and death often, no "glory" for regular troops. Generals, self image aware, like Miller, him being relieved was the necessary choice.

You can see Eisenhower (Selleck) grow older from the strain of command.

Also strange but true..they had to stop officers from the French army buying all the maps of Normandy as this would also be a wee bit suspect!😂

he could have demoted him to private and be on the lead boat into Normandy.

"Theater Rank" is how it's stated in the vid. "permanent rank" is what he was demoted to as far as Wikia is concerned. Was there a rank in the Army of the United States vs A rank in the United States Army?

Is this scene real life or apocryphal? Either way it shows what weighed heavy on Eisenhower as SCAEF

well if true Ike did the right thing and tried to save his rank

This might be the biggest, most awkward miscast of an historical figure that i've ever seen. He looks nothing like him, acts nothing like him and talks nothing like him. No fault of Tom Selleck, as he's a competent actor. He was just grossly miscast. As Selleck himself said when first offered the role, "Why me?"

I always found it interesting that he would say you could invade Russia at dinner sounds like Patton what he knew as a soldier not a politician I know it’s not popular but at the time we could’ve freed the Russian people and saved 50 million lives from Stalin and change the course of history but we didn’t I’m pretty sure Russia was thinking we might they were done but we weren’t the aggressors Even though people will argue Our need to colonize but I believe in this case it would’ve been in the worlds best interest

Did this actually happen?

Horrible video and audio quality.

Your late .