QUOTE(PFC Mustangman @ 06/06/08 3:58am)
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#p741495There 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.htmI 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.