33 Classic World War II Movies from 'Stalag 17' to 'Dunkirk'

From the November 11, 2021, The Wrap  by Beatrice Verhoevan.

*  Means I've seen it.

1945:  " Walk in the Sun"

1949:  "Battleground"

1953:  "From Here to Eternity"

1953:  "Stalag 17"

1954:  *"The Caine Mutiny:

1957:  *"Bridge on the River Kwai"

1961:  *"The Guns of Navarone"

1962:  *"The Longest Day"

1963:  *"The Great Escape"

1967:  *"The Dirty Dozen"

1968:  *"Where Eagles Dare"

--GreGen

Fifty Facts About D-Day-- Part 4: Higgins Boats

31.  It was supposed to happen one month earlier.

32.  Nature played a key role.   Weather almost caused another delay in June.

33.  Higgins Boats (LCVPs) took on D-Day.

34.  D-Day films have become very popular in American culture.  "The Longest Day" and "Saving Private Ryan" of course.

35.  A movie star was at D-Day.  Henry Fonda was a quartermaster on the destroyer USS Satterlee at D-Day.  He also was in the movie "The Longest Day."

36.  Many other famous people were at D-Day.  Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, author J.D. Salinger and Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers.  Also golf great Bobby Jones and British actor David Niven and  Charles Durning.

Before he played Scotty" on "Star Trek," actor James  Doohan sustained six wounds and lost his middle finger at Juno Beach.

37.  Gargantuan supply shipments preceded the invasion.

38.  17 million maps were needed.

39.  The landings opened a supply line.

40.  Artificial harbors supported the supply lines.

I'm Hit, Capt. Kirk!  I'm Hit.  --GreGen

Some More On That Famous "Nuts!" Reply-- Part 2: Edward Ihlenfeld

Edward Ihlenfeld was a 1938 North Division High School graduate in Milwaukee and worked for the Milwaukee Police Department when he was drafted in the fall of 1942.

He parachuted into France during D-Day, landing at Sainte-Mere-Eglise, where he saw the paratrooper whose chute got caught up on the church steeple in the town square which was shown in the movie "The Longest Day."

After D-Day, he returned to England, then made another parachute jump into the Netherlands September 1944 during Operation Market Garden where he received a Purple Heart for a wound he received on the way down.

--GreGen

Fiftieth Anniversary of Movie "The Longest Day"

From Facebook.

And, I remember thinking when I saw that "Gone With the Wind" had been released fifty years ago back in 1989, thinking, "Man, that WAS A LONG TIME AGO."  And here is a movie I remember seeing several times as a young lad, and now, it was released FIFTY YEARS AGO.

This date, October 3, 1962, the World War II classic "The Longest Day" was released to theaters.  It told, on a grand scale, the story of June 6, 1944, from both the Allied and German sides of the story.

It won two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Special Effects.  Released world-wide, it was seen by millions and was primarily shot in France.

Some 42 Hollywood actors and actresses appeared in it.

Like John Wayne's character in the flick, Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoot, said, "You can't give the enemy a break.  Send him to hell."

Wonder If Anyone Is Showing the Movie Tonight.  No Wait, There's That Debate.  --GreGen