Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!epsilon3.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Jay E. Morris" <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
Subject: Re: MT VOID, 05/31/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 48, Whole Number 2330
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 13:50:05 -0500
Organization: very little if any
Lines: 22
Message-ID: <v3iess$3fbud$1@epsilon3.eternal-september.org>
References: <v3hspa$3c2ln$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:50:05 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: epsilon3.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1a5368b383357d81a8915497e6dd294c";
	logging-data="3649485"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Vix5UD/9hSUni6kVvLTzIMKcimSRuZDM="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Esk9YhYZgq65bwjxl6chC5l9pw=
Content-Language: en-US
In-Reply-To: <v3hspa$3c2ln$1@dont-email.me>
X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 240602-4, 6/2/2024), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
Bytes: 2471

On 6/2/2024 8:40 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
> Before SAVING PRIVATE RYAN came out, THE LONGEST DAY was
> considered the definitive D-Day film, and in some sense it still
> is.  While SAVING PRIVATE RYAN covers D-Day, a lot of time is
> spent on the (fictional) story of trying to find the fifth brother
> from a family after the first four have been killed in combat that
> day.  THE LONGEST DAY, on the other hand, is strictly about the
> D-Day invasion and sticks pretty much to the facts.  Yes, the
> dialogue is not necessarily exactly what was said, and some some
> incidents might be fictionalized, but it doesn't invent an entire
> story line.

Most of the major actors in The Longest Day were much older than the 
actual service members. John Wayne was 55 when he played Lt. Col. 
Benjamin Vandervoort who was 24 in WWII.  Average age of officers was 
around 28.

Richard Todd played Major John Howard of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry 
who led a glider force to capture the Pegasus and Ranville bridges. 
Under heavy German fire they were reinforced by the 7th (Light Infantry) 
Parachute Battalion, the first officer to report to Major Howard being 
Lt. Richard Todd.  And yes, that scene is in the movie.