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But I had two questions. Somewhere I heard that the Germans only managed to dispatch ONE single airplane against the invasion. Is this true or just a myth...and if its true, why didnt they send more aircraft? |
LiveFree wrote: |
Finally got a chance to see Stalingrad. I had NO idea the eastern front was so disturbingly morbid and hellish. By the end it seemed those men were more dead than alive.
And I always thought it was only the Russians that cared so little about their own men and killed them sometimes like they were the enemy. But at the end of the movie, the roles had switched and the Germans had descended into brutality. Only 6000 Germans ever returned to Germany!?....thats incredible Great movie! |
LiveFree wrote: |
Finally got a chance to see Stalingrad. I had NO idea the eastern front was so disturbingly morbid and hellish. By the end it seemed those men were more dead than alive.
And I always thought it was only the Russians that cared so little about their own men and killed them sometimes like they were the enemy. But at the end of the movie, the roles had switched and the Germans had descended into brutality. Only 6000 Germans ever returned to Germany!?....thats incredible Great movie! |
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The eastern front was pure hell. |
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the german navy didn't respond and neither did Hitler! the whole Atlantic wall was mostly propaganda and very incomplete and manned by 2nd rate garrison troops. It's no surprise that the Luftwaffe didn't respond |
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There is the scene in which Cpt Miller says that his company have captured twenty-three soldiers belonging to the 346th Infantry Division, Kampfgruppe Von Luck. KG v. Luck wasn't actually there (Omaha Beach). |
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While speaking of that area of ops, the US paras were never supposed to capture the bridges over Merderet, nor they ever did that |
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Oh yes, there was no Tiger tanks in Normandy during the period covered in the movie. |
kawasaky wrote (View Post): |
The german pilot was Josef 'Pips' Priller.
Oh yes, The Longest Day is MUCH better than SPR, and the book is much better than the movie, as usual. There are much more historical errors in SPR. No time now, will post a few later. |
LiveFree wrote (View Post): |
another thing i cant figure out is....in the beginning of the movie when theyve made some progress and are below the german bunker....they begin shooting covering fire at the german MG sandbag position....At one point the Captain tells Jackson(the sniper)
"now that crater should give you perfect defalay to their position" what is defelay/defalay???? I dont know how to spell it....but thats what it sounds like thanks |
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