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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsToday is the anniversary of when D Day was supposed to happen.
The invasion of Nazi-occupied France in 1944 was originally scheduled for June 5 but had to be postponed because of bad weather. The weather forecast for the following day was not quite as bad, so Ike decided that June 6 would be D Day.
Kali
(55,025 posts)but I bet my oldest son does. we have enough differences in our interests that he is fun to have conversations with.
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)Ah, the bubbles we live in.
-- Mal
Such engaging movies help me NOT to forget.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/06/03/best-d-day-movies/9900817/
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)I like Where Eeagles Dare enough but calling it a D-Day movie is a stretch. Fuller's D Day sequence may not have been as realistic as Spielberg's but I imagine Spielberg spent more money on that one sequence than Fuller did in his entire career.
The scene with Mark Hamill and Lee Marvin at the concentration camp is one of the greatest scenes in any war movie ever.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)Overlord: D-Day and the battle for Normandy by Max Hastings
These two books are written from different points of view. Ambrose is American. Hastings is British. Ambrose is most impressed by the performance of the Allies, Hastings by that of the Germans.
IMHO Hastings is the better historian. Ambrose is too parochial, as is shown by his title. Calling D-Day "the climatic battle of World War II" is ridiculous when compared to the battles fought by Soviet forces, especially the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk. A more reasonable claim would be that D-Day was the climactic battle on the Western Front.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,719 posts)The weather was just barely good enough for the invasion to happen.
We lucked out!
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)Ike knew what the Germans didn't know, namely, that the weather would improve slightly. That's because the Allies had information from ships in the Atlantic Ocean, while Germany had no such information.
rug
(82,333 posts)Kennah
(14,315 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)DFW
(54,445 posts)He insisted on going back over the aerial photos and consulting with the Wehrmacht high command before conceding.
His own pollsters assured him the invasion would come at Calais, and he is reluctant to call them wrong.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)Oh wait, that was in the previous world war.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)When is summer supposed to start??!! I'm sick of Siberian air.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)but bring your own water.
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