June 6th

[Tex -USMC- 0]

Don`t watch "Windtalkers" with her. I bet she wouldn`t like this clichee-stuntshow.  

It is aaallll about the Longest Day today. In fact, Im going to see if it's on cable right now...

[FSPilot 0]

Don't watch windtalkers anyway.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

I hate TV. Not a single channel has The Longest Day on. I'd have completely given up on them except one channel's showing Hell is For Heroes.

[FSPilot 0]

The history channel always has something good on. They just ran a documentary on the US Rangers. Good stuff.

[MLF 0]

Hell is for Heroes was on her in the UK on CHannel 4, i then watched Longest Day on DvD, then i talked to my grandad.

[Die Alive 0]

I hate the History channel, too freaken many commercial breaks, it makes a 4 hour movie into a 6 hour movie.

-=Die Alive=-

[FallenPaladin 0]

Don't watch windtalkers anyway.

I`ll have to make a note in my calendar! It`s the first time we have the same opinion in a discussion.  

[Winters 1]

Don't watch the thin red line as well. boooooooriiiiing

[LT.Schaffer 0]

Hi all,

Well i shall certainly remember,

my grandfather was a combat medic in WW2,and my dad was a Engineer in Korea

i will never forget those that gave their lives for my freedom! such freedom as playing Operation flashpoint!

[Col. Kurtz 0]

One of my grandfathers units (British Army) landed on D-Day, but whether my grandfather was part of the invasion is not so clear. There are a few stories about what my grandfather did in the war. If you listen to my Nana, he got a swollen foot just before D-Day so he had to go to hospital then his entire regiment was wiped out at D-Day so my grandfather spent the rest of the war guarding POWs back in Britain, but then theres the other side of the story where he did go to Europe and was wounded (there is also another story where he tried to desert). When I went to see my grandfather last (about 2 years ago now) I noticed that he had a stack of 6 documentaries on D-Day so it obviously means something to him.

Anyway...

I honour those that participated in D-Day from both sides.

[Assault (CAN) 1]

Quote[/b] ]It is aaallll about the Longest Day today. In fact, Im going to see if it's on cable right now...

They should have called it "The Longest Movie" It's on History Television right now (the Canadian version of the History Channel) and I have been watching bits of pieces of it. That channel will also be showing "A Bridge Too Far", I'll have to watch that one.

[attilauk 0]

i know a bunch of wwii vets, they are the most foul mouthed gits i know!, good on em .  i went to the rolls royce test pilot reunion meal the other year, i was on a table with lord an lady DeHaviland, lord and lady Fairy (as in swordfish!) and the chief test pilot on the TSR2 project! as well as the guy who looks after the Rolls Royce Spitfire (i was on work experience with him!) it was a superb day i learned so much and met at least ten guys who survived the Battle of Britain!

[The Frenchman 0]

AND!!!! (This is true)The weirdest thing of all is the fact that it is my neighbors birthday today and the person who lived in my house in the 1890's birthday is today!!!!

[Warin 0]

The Longest Day is a great movie.

Gummi puppen?

John Wayne and everything.

I liked that they focussed on Pegasus Bridge in the movie. If it werent for the Oxs and Bucks, the Germans would have held the bridges on the Orne, giving them free reign to get tanks down to the beaches. And that would have been NASTY.

ABTF is also great, not the typical Hollywood strokefest where we end up believing the USA won the war on it's own.

Today is also the opening of Canada's Juno Beach Museum. I am very glad they have managed to get it built before all of our D-Day vets have passed on.

[LT.Schaffer 0]

oh i also forgot to mention that my grandfather

was also an MP in Eisenhower's motorcade

[FSPilot 0]

They should have called it "The Longest Movie"   It's on History Television right now (the Canadian version of the History Channel) and I have been watching bits of pieces of it. That channel will also be showing "A Bridge Too Far", I'll have to watch that one.

"A bridge too far" is one of my favorite classic WW2 movies.

Nothing beats that scene where the allied soldiers are running to the bridge, slowly gaining speed while the music slowly gains tempo, then suddenly the bridge blows up.

Gotta love those classic movies.

The big red one is the one with luke skywalker (mark hammel?) in it, right?

[Jinef 2]

Hmm Normandy,

In retrospect that was a rather big cockup.

[FSPilot 0]

It got the job done.

[Vognsen 0]

From exactly 110 years ago, Gandhi was thrown out from his train to South Africa. From what he told later, this was the first reason for his struggle agains unjustice.

Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in India, but moved to brittain to study, and was later going to a law-school in south africa. When he got kicked out of the train, he started his strugle for his own rights as an Indian and a human. Before WW1 he supported the Brittish empire in India. After the war he eventally started working for the independence of India, and was thrown to jail many times by the brittish occupations. Though he was allways released quickly due to his many followers. Gandhi allways used peaceful campaigns, and hated violence.

After WW2 he succeeded and India became independent. The celebrations didnt last long, since violence broke out between Hindus and Muslims in India in 1947. He was shot in 1948 byNathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist who objected to Gandhi's tolerance for the Muslims.

Known as Mahatma, or "the great soul," during his lifetime, Gandhi's persuasive methods of civil disobedience influenced leaders of civil rights movements around the world, especially Martin Luther King, Jr., in the United States.

[FallenPaladin 0]

Don't watch the thin red line as well. boooooooriiiiing

I liked The thin red line. It`s very good regarding the philosophy and minds of the soldiers. It shows both sides without black/white, good/evil thinking. It`s a very good movie in my opinion but indeed nothing for action-warmovie fans.

[USSoldier11B 0]

Quote[/b] ]It got the job done.

That it did. The operation was quite successful, we only see the media give the intense parts any rememberance. (i.e. Omaha beach and the Airborne mis-drops.) Operation Overlord was a success, as in it acheived the objective with an acceptable number of allied casualties. Operation Market Garden is another story.

[Longinius 1]

"I'm commerating Gustav Vasa who liberated Sweden from Danish occupation"

I'd say we got shafted. If we were danish we would have much cheaper beer, polse and loads more of beautiful women

[Badgerboy 0]

Quote[/b] ]It got the job done.

That it did. The operation was quite successful, we only see the media give the intense parts any rememberance. (i.e. Omaha beach and the Airborne mis-drops.) Operation Overlord was a success, as in it acheived the objective with an acceptable number of allied casualties. Operation Market Garden is another story.

That it did. Sadly the amount of 'green' troops put ashore pushed that number up (Bloody Omaha rings a bell). Saying that, the Airborne and Rangers did an excellent job. However, if Hitler aides hadn't let him sleep in, the OKW panzer divisions would have been released (Panzer Lehr,and the 21st) and the Allied bridgeheads smashed to pieces.

Just goes to show how much warfare depends on luck (Or bad luck in the other guys case - ie Rommel was at home visiting his wife and son on the 6th, and many commanders were attending wargames that night)

[booradley60 0]

Hitler stuck to the belief that the main invasion would be at Calais just a little too long. He could have thrown the Allies back into the channel easily.

[Schoeler 0]

Don't watch the thin red line as well. boooooooriiiiing

I liked The thin red line. It`s very good regarding the philosophy and minds of the soldiers. It shows both sides without black/white, good/evil thinking. It`s a very good movie in my opinion but indeed nothing for action-warmovie fans.  

Great movie in my opinion, its almost poetic and shows the brotherhood of soldiers and the tragedy of war better than any war movie I've seen to date. The action scenes weren't all that bad either, and the setting, on a real pacific island beat the hell out of that piece of crap Windtalkers which was shot in central California. The only unrealistic part of the movie was the Japanese fighting out on open ground. They only did that as a last resort in a final banzai charge. I've been to the pacific islands, those buggers were dug in and sitting behind concreted-in firing slits. The G.I.'s often had to fight right up to their fighting positions and then burn them out position by position. Nasty fighting that was.