avatar! | 1,816 Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 https://apnews.com/57a23515d56f45e23784be8505e487a2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,320 Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 (edited) If anyone hasn't seen it, The Longest Day (1962) is a good and fairly accurate film - more interesting to me than the battle scenes are the build up which shows what was going on both sides - fortunately for the Allies the German command structure was in chaos since many of the senior commanders were not at the various HQs and the ones that were there had their hands tied since Hitler had to approve just about everything - and he was sleeping through the early hours of D-Day and his staff was afraid to wake him up. Edited June 6, 2020 by Tabonga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,265 Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 You know, Charles Schultz starting in 1993 started his famous D-Day comics: And for the 50th anniversary the next year he did a whole week's worth: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,816 Posted June 6, 2020 Author Share Posted June 6, 2020 In my opinion the best WWII film/series are The World at War - which everyone should see! Here is the first episode on youtube And another amazing series is Band of Brothers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,320 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 3 hours ago, avatar! said: In my opinion the best WWII film/series are The World at War - which everyone should see I have seen that series a zillion times - I also have the DVD set - it was fantastic how many people they interviewed - the interviews with one of Hitler's secretaries (who was in the bunker at the end) were pretty amazing. There are some other WWII series out right now ()on what used to be the history channel) that are pretty interesting in that they cover a lot of aspects that the BBC documentary series didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,934 Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 I'm told it's also pretty much something that must be seen for WW2, but Victory at Sea you should take a look into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,265 Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 (edited) I can't believe we're already at the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII. This means that if you figure a 20 year old in 1945 (just to keep the math simple) that means WWII vets would now be in their 90s at minimum. Even 'Nam vets are at least in their 60s already and now Gulf War vets are entering their 50s! IOW we are now at the same point regarding WWII vets as these guys were regarding Civil War vets: This may be a silent film but someone actually had the heart to splurge on the extra money for COLOR!! Edited June 9, 2020 by Estil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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