Its been 64 years since they hit the beaches.It was,"Do or Die".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnhcMXoftp4



www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B4ADorFp-s

I'll take this opportunity to add references to other 'faces' we don't see/realize were involved in D-Day -either from real footage or mainstream movies about it.

Apart from an 'Asian' unit fighting with the Germans;
Battalion Ost
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=741495#p741495

There are these faces;-
French Resistance units playing crucial sabotage roles behind enemy lines.
The secret agents / OSS personnel directing and assisting the French Resistance.
The female fighters in the above two organizations.
Black soldiers..... I know there were two in the famous 'Pegasus Bridge' Brit airborne assault by the account of one of its participants.
Also this- which we didn't see in Saving Private Ryan/nor The Longest Day;
http://8thwood.com/320th_barrage_balloon_battal.htm
I read somewhere SPR movie advisor- the famous WW2 historian Stephen Ambrose, mentioned the presence of this unit but the comment was ignored.
Then there was Patton's Phantom Army -or the large numbers of the creators of this ruse - that played a vital role in keeping Hitler's Panzer reserves locked on facing the Calais landing area for weeks.


This post has been edited by Hellfighter: 06/06/08 7:18am