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You know the other nonarticulated part was when the Catering Truck during the Movie had Tacos served for Lunch... They Didn't have Tacos at D Day... it's a Movie .. so fucking stupid...

When discussing actors from The Longest Day who had military experience, you left out Eddie Albert. Famous for his role in Green Acres, Albert played Colonel Lloyd Thompson, a staff officer of the 29th Infantry Division who was killed on Omaha Beach. Mr. Albert was a Naval Reserve officer who commanded a Higgins Boat (a plywood landing craft) at Tarawa in the Pacific. The landing didn't reckon with fickle tides at Tarawa. A number of Marines there were stuck in neck-deep water hundreds of yards from shore and taking enemy fire. Albert picked up a number of them and took them in. When his craft was partially disabled, he directed other boats to pick up stranded Marines, while he used his boat to shield them from continuing enemy fire. He did this in violation of his orders. He was principally responsible for saving over 70 Marines. For this he received the Bronze Star (should have been a Navy Cross or higher IMO).

@@reserva120Where in the HELL did you see a catering truck? The movie was shot in Europe so in ‘62 there were NO tacos in Europe.

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I'm a couple years younger than you and that's also my view. The theme song was good too.

I totally agree! I never bought the Wayne character in the film. A better casting would have been James Coburn, or Lee Marvin. Wayne's build was more Mech Infantry, but no way airborne. Still, I'm sure he was a major box office draw to an other wise excellent project, that deserved to be paid. The great battle was the tipping point of WWII. Failure, and Hitler retains all Europe, and threatens the US and Canada as next in the hopper. Again, never has so much been owed to so few.

Read "The Longest Day" by Ryan. You will see the movie in a different light.

Believe it or not a lot of young Brits who have seen Band of Brothers and Saving Ryan’s Privates don’t realise there were actually British troops at D Day. Of course we all know that they made up over 70% with troops, landing craft and Royal Navy crews as well as Aircrew including the famous Dambusters squadron who all through the night flew a circular flight dropping window (aluminium foil) so that the German radar picked up a false armada heading for Calais. DID YOU ALSO MENTION THE ACTOR MICHAEL TODD WHO WAS ACTUALLY AT THE PEGASUS BRIDGE ON D DAY AND PLAYED HIS COMMANDING OFFICER IN THE FILM. ( HOLD UNTIL RELIVED)

Its a shame that the recent effort to make a movie specifically about Operation Deadstick was not a success.

one of the actors was actually on that mission in real life..I think it was Richard Todd

Him playing himself is right up there with Audey Murphy playing himself!

​@@grayharker6271Richard Todd played his commanding officer, another actor played Todd and in one scene reports to the Officer Todd is playing.

Did you know that the actor Richard Todd was an officer in the Parachute Regiment that re enforced Major Howard at the Orne River bridge and the Para Regiment officer standing next to Major Howard as Lord Lovard commando's was in real life Richard Todd

Richard Todd jumped into Normandy on D Day with the 7th Bn The Parachute Regiment

​@@edwardpenny7698yes, he was part of the relief force at the bridge and his beret was the one he wore during the war.

Even this Yank knows that Richard Todd was the real deal. “Hold until Relieved”

The scene when the paras arrive at the bridge sees Todd, playing Major Howard, meeting a young officer played by an uncredited actor who is playing the real Richard Todd. Art imitating life imitating art 🤔😄

I always liked him. I don't know about his service.

Albert would have likely been a USCG enlisted Boatswain Mate in 1943. They served as small boat coxswains during landings because of their heavy surf and shallow water training with the Coast Guard. He likely afterwards mustanged over to Navy in 1943 to serve as a Reserve LT. I am a retired USCGR LT who mustanged thru the ranks.....first as a Boatswain , then later as an officer.

@@CRuf-qw4yv Eddie Albert was a Stalinist Communist like Burl Ives.

@@CRuf-qw4yv Albert was a Stalinist Communist.

@@CRuf-qw4yv Albert was a Communist.

There is a colourised version of The Longest Day.

@@anthonyeaton5153, yes, but it sucks, and it was not originally filmed or released in color.

@@AlexDiazGranados I only like the colourised version.

there were no colour/Black and white segments in the theatre version in 1962, the actors spoke in their own languages with subtitles as required. If you think John Wayne was too old for the person he portrayed then Robert RyN was wat too old for the part of General James Gavin.

@@nirnman Gavin was not a paratrooper.

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John Wayne may have been too old for the part, but when he saw the paratroopers dangling from their parachutes, his expression and reaction convinced me.

@@donyoung1384 John Wayne was a terrible actor. He only got his big break because so many US stars volunteered to serve in the US forces during WW2, Henry Fonda, Clarke Gable, Jimmy Stewart, even a 50 year old John Ford volunteered, they should be feted for action men. Whilst pretend action man Wayne refused, so the studios were forced to use him as there was nobody else. I watched the longest day again over the D-Day anniversary, Wayne was as dreadful as ever. He made a reasonable cowboy in which he could play John Wayne on a horse, but in any movie that required him not to play John Wayne on a horse, awful. Watch "the Conqueror" where John Wayne plays Genghis Khan - with a US accent, or the Quiet man - where he plays an Irishman - with a US accent, and so forth.

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Well..yes, but only later that morning... He was not part of the Coup de Main Glider party that took the bridges...(from the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry) ... he was in HQ Platoon of the relieving force from 8 Para. In the movie he wore his own red beret, the one he had worn on D-Day. THAT is just marvellous!

Richard Todd said his real life role if he had played it himself would have been too small and insignificant a part in the film. There was a scene at Pegasus bridge where a soldier hands major Howard a cup of tea. The actor handing major Howard a cup of tea was playing the part of RichardTodd during the battle.

Todd also wore his own WW2 Beret.

dont forget Paul Anka was a hell of a singer too

John Wayne was in many movies and many great scene of course. But this scene is one of his greatest in my opinion "GET THEM DOWN!"

@@riverbluevert7814 I agree 100% He was the best.

@@riverbluevert7814 Thank you. having made 29 drops with the 82nd when I saw the paratroopers dying I screamed in horror. I was on a live drop one night on our way to stop a coup in Panama. I was number 2 out the door just behind our platoon leader. luckily the coup was stopped before we dropped and we returned home safely. . The coup never made the papers. I was just 18. I remember accepting my death when I was assigned to be in the paratrooper infantry unit. For me there was no other way to handle the stress of knowing any day we could be killed. I thank God I never went to combat. how ever at 70 I have the skeleton structure of a 110 -120 year old and in constant pain. . Let us never forget the sacrifices our vets have made for our freedoms.

@@michaelparks5669 I'm extremely sorry you're feeling such pain in your later years. Kudos to you for your service.

@@WaferBrik Thank you.....

Glad that Mr. Albert got his due. A genuine national hero, and it is a wonder that he survived the Tarawa campaign at all given the incredible bravery and determination of keeping a slow moving craft in harm's way in order to rescue all those wounded men. Now that, my friend, is some TRUE grit!

I liked Eddie Albert portraying a less than honorable roll in this film and in Attack with Lee Marvin. A war hero that was unafraid to take rolls that uninformed people might think is his true self.

No wonder he wanted to move to the country!

Eddie Albert and James Stewart were true war heroes, unlike the coward John Wayne who hid behind his wife's skirts so he wouldn't have to go to war.

@@academyofshem So, when did you serve ??

Indeed he was. Another actor portrays the unnamed Todd. The most glaring omission in the list.

Read somewhere he was offered the role of himself,which must have been odd but said no as he was bit too old to play himself

The Bridges (TWO of them, Canal and River) were "secured" by a Glider Assault conducted by D Company, 2nd (Airborne) Batt. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. (Reinforced with 2 Platoons from B Coy and 20 Sappers from the RE) They belonged to the 6th Airlanding Brigade, part of the 6th Airborne Division, but they were NOT Paras. Richard Todd was in HQ Platoon, 7 Para, the unit which reinforced the Glider troops LATER on D-day. In the movie he played Major John Howard, commander of the Gliderborne assault party... but not TODDS commanding officer on the day... HIS CO was the wonderfully named Lt.Col R.G. Pine-Coffin!

Excellent film excellent cast welldone.

Funny thing there was a photo from the movie of 3 officers at Pegasus Bridge from memory the on one the left was Richard Todd playing G John Howard and the one on the right was the Adjutant of the Ox and Bucks who was Richard Todd in real life.

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Same with The Great Escape, well over the average age. Donald Pleasance had been a P.O.W. in a Luftwaffe Stalag in real life, 20 years before the film was made.

The heroes at Dunkirk were the French soldiers that stayed behind to give the the rest the time to leave and the people who used their personal boats to help in the evacuation. Using a famous retreat as a rallying cry is a bit unusual.

@@carlreed6186 I agree that the French rearguard were crucial to the evacuation of the British and French soldiers. Churchill said: “We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.”

@@percyprune7548 My mother's cousin Geoffrey Cornish was an Australian bomber pilot, the sole survivor of a crew shot down over Germany and was held in Stalag Luft III. His brother had been a bomber pilot shot down and killed over Milne Bay New Guinea. Geoff was supposed to go out in the escape but had been a medical student and so was the closest thing to a doctor they had in the camp, and his place was given to another man who was among the fifty executed. He felt survivor's guilt ever after. When the Americans liberated the camp Geoff was taken to Dachau concentration camp to assist in triaging the inmates. He told his daughter it was the worst two and a half days of his life. He became a well known cardiologist after he returned to Australia.

No he didn't. He was part of the 7 Para relief force much later in the day. That really is a common mistake.... perhaps BECAUSE he played Maj Jogn Howard in the movie???

Indeed; I stand corrected. @@trooperdgb9722

The original Pegasus bridge is ashore on the grounds of the Pegasus Museum, located on the east side of the present bridge's site. The guided tour there informs the visitors that the glider operation took place on the fifth (5) of June, because the bridge's capture had to prevent the enemy from counter attacking the Allied landing on the sixth of(6) of June. Also the "de-mining making the bridge safe would allow the Allied troops to break out and continue their attack inland. The "new" bridge is larger, to allow two-way traffic, and is in the same shape/profile as is the original bridge. The museum's facade has its roof in the shape of the insignia worn by the airborne attackers; double wings. Worth a visit. P.S. The scene depicting the freeing of Ouistreham was filmed at Port-en-Bessin, because Ouistreham looked too "modern" at the time of filming, and could not be changed to look like 1944. So the sign "Ouistreham" in Port-en-Bessin is a decoy, an artistic licence; just as J Wayne (54) portraying a younger Allied officer, IMO.

Wayne didn't serve. He hid behind his wife's skirt so he wouldn't have to fight in a war. John Wayne was a coward through and through.

My grandad was 41. He took a landing craft ashore on the first wave . Royal Navy PO. He fought to get in the navy as he'd taken a little ship to Dunkirk, transferred from Merchant Marine. I was privileged to go with him to Normandy 25 year commemoration. He wept in the graveyard for 18 year old twins ,4 years older than his own daughter had been. I think that is why he so soon passed away, the grief of memory. Over 200 people, ex crew came to Skippers funeral.

John Wayne wanted to serve in the military but was threatened with a lawsuit by the president of Republic Pictures apparently. He did tour three months U.S. bases and hospitals for USO in the South Pacific. During this trip he was asked by OSS to look if general MacArthur wasn't hindering OSS operations. For this he later got an OSS certificate of service.

@@lathemillwelder920 Wayne was not threatened with a lawsuit by anybody. The idea has only to be considered for its intrinsic absurdity to beome obvious.

@@michaelharrington7656 There is a YT video documenting the real reason he did not serve and it had nothing to do with a lawsuit.

Wayne was clearly far too old and heavy to play a wartime paratrooper.

​@MarkHarrison733 yeah with his cringy over acting style

Wayne was born ten years before the actual guy he was playing, I learned today cause I looked it up cause I'm curious. So it was a 55 year old playing a 45 year old from back when he was 27.

@@TheMadSocrates Wayne was far too old and heavy to play a paratrooper.

@@TheMadSocrates They should have cast Charlton Heston.

I'm NOT a critic or even a troll but John Wayne is a mediocre and LOUSY ACTOR...as you mentioned: he played John Wayne just like Tom Cruise, charlie Sheen, Lisa Kudrow and many others in HELLywood nowadays.

Except Wayne found a way not to fight in the war.

@@fred5399 ...making him a COWARD!!... SHOULD'VE BEEN BLACKLISTED!!!🤬

John Wayne said he doesn’t act he ‘reacts’

@@anthonyeaton5153 very MEDIOCRE!!!

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@@FactsVerse Never seen a color version either , also versions I seen when when the Germans /French spoke it was in English subtitle, Was Wayne too old to play the role, yes but his name drew butts to seats didn't bother me "Hollywood" lol

True there are no color scenes, I have the expanded version with all the commentary and there is color in some of that.

Yes, there are subtitles when the German and French are speaking.

There is a version where colour was added much later. The main problem is that many of the actors' mouths when speaking were still black and white original. I guess computers weren't up to the power for good digital enhancement. It is available to buy if you Google for it.

Except Pluskatt was not at the battery that night, he was staying at a Certain type of house in the vicinity.

The actor who played him, Hans Christian Blech, was an Eastern Front veteran himself.

John Wayne did not serve. He made a name for himself by not going in.

@@PanioloBee He could not serve in the Military, he was 4 F on account of knee injuries in college.

​@@PanioloBee... a great actor. Period.

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The name of that young paratrooper Lt.Col. was Vandervoort. A dutch name obviously, but written without spaces, and with "r" before "t" by the way. I saw the movie first time as a kid around 1970 and it's been my favourite ever since. I don't know about real mr. Vandervoort, but Wayne was acting very much credible in my eyes as concerned combat leader. I understand though, if real mr. Vandervoort was unsatisfied, because Wayne was during filming more than twenty years older as he was 1944. Incredible, 27-years old lieutenant colonel!!! Possible only in war time. But that age difference can't be a big deal with the monumental movie like this.

@@FactsVerse I like history videos such as this one, but I love all your channel content.

I know a SF veteran who was at Ft. Bragg during the filming of the Green Berets. Parts of the movie were filmed there. He said the men loved John Wayne. Their was a feeling of mutual respect there.

John Wayne never served in the armed forces. The fact was a source of embarassment

John Wayne was 34 years old when he registered for the draft during WW2. He did register that's a fact. I understand the age limit then was 35. I also understand it that by that point all who entered the military did so by draft enlisting had been phased out. He had numerous injuries from doing his own stunts and the studio he was under contract to thought he could do more for the country and moral by making movies. The draft board agreed. I think the fact the SF guys at Bragg and Camp Mackall loved him speaks volumes. @@doreenfallows1895

@@doreenfallows1895 Yes, he even put an effort in not to be drafted for WWII.

He used an old football injury for his reason not to serve. His agent and studio supported that.

True - OTOH There's a theory that "John Wayne" was a role that Marion Michael Morrison created for himself because it suited the kind of parts he usually played. People thought that he couldn't act when really he was acting all the time.

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@@RichardFay We come to see John Wayne

You mean like in his vanity propaganda piece of sh*t The Green Berets? He got EVERYTHING wrong in that movie! When it was shown to actual soldiers there, they booed heavily and threw stuff at the screen (until they pulled the plug on the projector) because it was worse propaganda than anything Goebbels did. Every advisor that actually knew about the Vietnam War either quit or was fired by wayne. Yet, they now show it on Memorial Day like it was history. Of course, way too many people believe Oliver Stone's JFK tells the true story of the Kennedy assassination, never bothering to tell you that Jim Garrison was exposed as a delusional moron. John Wayne did some commendable performances in his life but, by the end of it, he was a bitter, far right wing blowhard. Shame.

John Wayne's best film was The Quiet Man.

Very strange of them to mention other actors, some of whose service was rather limited, and not Todd who actually fought on D-Day.

Richard Todd fought at and helped defend Pegasus Bridge. Do you know how Pegasus Bridge got its name? It’s from the British Paratroopers Regimental Badge.

Another tidbit. The Pegasus bridge in the film. Whilst Richard Todd played Major Howard, another actor (unknown) actually played Richard Todd in the film😉

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Ryan wrote three books: The Longest Day (1959), The Last Battle (1966), and A Bridge Too Far (1974). In the early 1970s, Ryan (who was both battling cancer and working on A Bridge Too Far (originally titled The Big Jump) attempted to write a screenplay for The Last Battle (about the Battle of Berlin), but it would have been too expensive to make, so MGM canceled it.) There is evidence that Ryan planned to write five WWII books, but his health deteriorated thanks to cancer. We were lucky that he finished A Bridge Too Far before he died in 1974.

The Green Berets was nothing but a vanity propaganda piece of sh*t for wayne. There are so many things about it that rang false for everyone that served in Nam (the effing sun even set in THE EAST!). They tried to show it to active soldiers there and, almost as soon as it began, the soldiers began booing and throwing stuff at the screen. Yet, it is trotted out on Memorial Days and the 4th of July as if it is history. Wayne, during the shooting, famously ignored everything the advisors told him he was getting wrong. By the end of his life wayne had become a far right wing blowhard (he proudly proclaimed himself a white supremacist. He married a Mexican girl!) with no concern for the truth. People who think The Green Berets is an accurate portrayal of the Vietnam War probably also think Oliver Stone's JFK is too (Jim Garrison was a delusional moron). But at least it was good filmmaking. There is nothing good about The Green Berets. I head David Jansen forever regretted taking part in it.

@@terrymurphy2032 , nope. He died in 1974.

I enjoyed both books and their movies. My father (who was wounded at the Battle of Metz) referred to "A Bridge Too Far" as "A Bridge Too Long".

If you haven't seen A Bridge to Far, you should if you like this film.

its a factual film which means its a true to life film which actually happened and the events are real ??????????????????????

most of the movie was about real people.

@@josephberrie9550 Yes but not every soldier and officer you see in the film is portraying a specific historical counterpart so, not an unreasonable assumption on his part.

The movie had advisors that served on both sides of the conflict in the attempt to be as accurate as possible.

@@anthonyeaton5153 Thanks for the comment. At the time of D-Day Van der Voot was a light colonel and commanded the 2nd Batallion of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division (All American). I think you may be confusing him with the divisional commander of the 82nd, General Matthew Ridgway. Finally, you are correct that Wayne was twice the age. Cheers,

He made it seem like a Western. You keep expecting him to call soldiers "Pilgrim".

@@castlerock58 That's hilarious...thanks.

*Vandervoort

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On different sides in both. 😂

17 years later in another epic international war film, Connery and Wolfgang Preiss were the only veterans of The Longest Day to feature in A Bridge Too Far. Both had been significantly promoted by then!

But they later found the guns a little way inland and destroyed them. So it wasn’t all for nothing.

@@samiam619 Touche' (smile)

I expect that a soldier who had done that might have said it. But they really went all that way to be certain that the threat was neutralised.

🤔 Yes true ,but let's not let the truth get in the way of a good Hollywood story !!....

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No, the black troops were segregated. Hogan's Heroes fudged on that fact too.

blacks were strictly in supply and support. Just because you want something to be true does not make it so. The military at that time due to Woodrow Wilson was very segregated

My thoughts exactly on the lack of Canadian content in the film.

No he did not. This seems to be a widespread idea...but it simply isn't true. The Glider assault was by troops from the 6th Airlanding Bde ...NOT Paras. (A reinforced company from the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry) Todd was a Para ... he was in HQ Platoon 7 Para... which was part of the RELIEF force at the bridges later on D-day. Nothing to do with the Coup de main operation that TOOK the bridges.

@@trooperdgb9722 You are quite right I was under the impression that he was part of the glider assault. He did however play a key role in seeing off the German counter attack working closely with the officer commanding who he portrayed in the film so I still think he was the most authentic actor. I visited Pegasus Bridge some years ago with my Army Corps tour of the Normandy battlefields. It's a really excellent day out.

It really is. As an old "Para" myself..(Navy, but Basic and HALO qualified) Pegasus Bridge was a true Bucket List destination for me. Visited there, and St Mere Eglise and other D-Day Airborne "sites". Fantastic. @@daveh9753

@@trooperdgb9722- Exactly. He plays the CO of the Ox and Bucks. But at one point a Para officer sent to relieve him, approaches and speaks to him. That 7 Para officer was the real Lt. Richard Todd. Todd, in role, wearing the red beret he had worn on Pegasus bridge allows himself a smile having spoken to himself.

Brilliant!@@neilhayz1555

Flight Officer is a WAAF officer rank.

To be fair if you look at "Christopher Lee" movies you won't see any wat flicks.

I had no idea

and why anyone would think your opinion is worth anything?

You sound like someone that very question has been asked repeatedly.@@gruntforever7437

​@gruntforever7437 Why would anyone think your opinion matters? I love The Longest Day and don't object to Wayne's performance, but the man was a racist and a draft dodger.

That's why there is a 'pseudo-genre' called John Wayne Movies. His celebrity always overshadows the character he plays. But he was guaranteed to put bums on seats. And isn't that what it's all about?

Same as Elvis I suppose. ALL the Elvis movies made money.@@chong2389

I'm gonna make you eat those words, pilgrim. You can have them stewed or fried but they're goin' down your throat in the next 10 seconds. 😉

Honestly, YT censor, that comment you cut was just a comical take on a typical John Wayne quote. If you lack the intellect to discern what is and isn't humor you really shouldn't be in the bloody job because you're only f--king it all up. smh

dude was 35 years old too

--- THE LOUDMOUTH DODGER . . . always is the loudest whinger, John Wayne, who NEVER lived down his cowardice, like his bro, St.-Jesus Reagan, patron saint of stolen valour.

"Wayne was exempted from service due to his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status (classified as 3-A - family deferment). Wayne repeatedly wrote to John Ford saying he wanted to enlist, on one occasion inquiring whether he could get into Ford's military unit." Wikipedia

John Wayne was paid 750,000 dollars for his part in the movie all the other stars got 250,000 dollars. Both a fair whack in the early 1960s.

@@anthonyeaton5153 Endorsements usually work best when someone who is well known and well liked "endorses" a product. If we're talking about motion pictures, actors and actresses are paid more when their acting attracts more views to a movie, TV show, play, etc. This is the way capitalism works. It's why a Tom Clancy can demand---and get---more for the fiction he wrote than a Andy McKane will get for the legitimate history he writes. (This is a market driven economy.)

Marion Morrison played John Wayne, the character John Wayne was made up by the studio. Get ur head out of your#$$ Stop worshipping fake heros,

Bravo!

Same for Donnie Walberg as C Carwood Lipton in BoB. But Walberg did one hell of an acting job.

The 27 year old actors lacked the audience following at the box office like most other such motion pictures seeking box office fortunes.

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I’m 68, I’d go in a trice if asked…

What else should he have had in his mouth, a rubber?

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@@FactsVerse Honestly I'd love to see a factual film about the both George Bush connection to the deaths of JFK and later his son JFK Jr. I'd also love to see a great film like yours cover the truth about the Twin Towers and building 7. None of what we've been told officially adds up and if one follows the insurance money on the towers and the fact Bush/Cheney got their Americans support to invade Iraq from the False Flag ordeal I believe they created. Pentagon was hit by a missile not a plane from footage I've seen. Who can we believe? I honestly do love your productions and this is some of what I'd love to see. No disrespect either but this request is likely over your head. Either way please keep up the excellent work. I'll be watching. Peace

Lol, look at his history. Started out as a commy till he figured out being a phony yellow belly was more profitable, he never fought for his country as so so so many others in Hollywood did !

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the scene where he sees the men hanging by their parachutes dead in the town was a great one; clearly showing John Wayne COULD ACT

John Wayne was best at acting like he was a soldier.

I recall a number of Black WW2 vets who hated John Wayne.

True. Years earlier Richard Zanuck personally insulted Wayne and his abilities as an actor. It can be safely said that, for whatever reason, Zanuck was trying to ruin his career. Of course Wayne never forgot it. Years, and many films later Wayne was the big star, mostly from the war movies he starred in. When Zanuck wanted to make The Longest Day he knew he needed Wayne to sell the film. At that time in Wayne's career it was unthinkable for him not to be included in a war movie this big. Wayne fielded many requests from Zanuck to be in the film. Each request came with an increase in salary. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Wayne continued to turn the part down until the salary became astronomical by the standards of the time. He eventually accepted, I believe, after the offer reached several hundred thousand. That's the gist of how Wayne got the amount over the other actors.

'twas ever thus. You'd never guess that the Royal Navy had much of a role, either. I'm correcting this with tales to my grandsons of their great grandpa's role on HM S Erebus.

The assault on Pegasus bridge was covered at some length as was Brigadier "Shimi" Lovat's role in coming to the aid of the Ox & Bucks there.

Yes and no Black troops even in the background. At least some were in Fury with Brad Pitt.

Yes, the "Boy General" or something wasn't it? Very good actor though was Robert Ryan. Can't say I've seen him in a bar film offhand. Funny enough though about the only scene I don't like in the film is when JW and he has the chalkboard conversation right on the very eve of the jump. It would have been discussed many, many times before. Just seemed basic and pointless. I know I'm over thinking.

@@garysimmonds9636 I couldn't agree more, Gary. In fact, watching the film just a couple weeks ago, the very same thought crossed my mind. WAY too late for that discussion!

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You beat me to it. He not only did not volunter. he did everything he could to stay out.

Smart man !.Maybe he did not care to be involved in fighting other countries wars .Good for him..😊

Doesn't quite make sense. Even if you discounted the war against Germany there was still a fight against Japan and they had actually attacked the USA at Pearl Harbour.

Interesting. I didn't know this. What a good actor 😉

Gavin was in his 30s Not sure about Ryans age but he had to be well beyond 30

He looked more like a regular army general who had been serving for 30 years.

Peter Fonda was perfect at playing a 56 year old general, the oldest person to hit the beach. A real leader.

@@theraplawyer I agree & I know you meant Henry Fonda, Peter's dad.

--- LOOK! . . . white feathers in his coonskin cap! How MAGA!

Clark Gable served in WW2. He was older than Wayne. Wayne's stardom was more important than defeating the Nazis.

Kurt Jurgens.

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@@FactsVerse Frankly I watch everything you put out especially if I know anyone involved. LOL. But I always appreciate the behind the scenes facts of making films. Thank you.

@@ajhindalou He di not s"dodge the draft"! At the outbreak of war he was 34 years old and married so not going to be drafted. He did volunteer only to be given a medical downgrade. He was ashamed of this until the day he died and spent as much time as possible doing USO work to support US troops including going abroad in WW2, Korea and Vietnam.

And I doubt LTC Vandervoort cared who played him.

Always have to find fault don't they. It show business. Nothing more. Nothing less. If you want a history lesson go to school and get a degree.

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