Garandomatic Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 You're right about that one. They even included a black soldier in the film, as a African American AA outfit (AAAA?) found itself at Bastogne as well. Maybe "To Hell and Back" could be on the list as well. Looked like decent attention to detail. Looking for the following: 452nd and 447th Bomb Group items Anything 12th Armored- especially uniforms 155th Assault Helicopter Company, Camp Coryell, or Ban Me Thuot Vietnam items[/center]WWII US Navy Uniforms from the Battle Off Samar: USS Johnston DD-557, USS Hoel DD-553, USS Samuel B. Roberts DE-413, USS Heermann DD-532, USS Dennis DE-405, USS John C. Butler DE-339, USS Raymond DE-341, USS Fanshaw Bay St. Lo, White Plains, Kalinin Bay, Kitkun Bay and Gambier Bay... Link to post Share on other sites
David D Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Yeah I agree Battle Ground is one of the most accurate movies in pre Band of Brothers days. -Dave Collecting WWI 26th Division Machine Gun and Infantry related Helmets, Equipment, Groupings, Photos and Dog Tags! Link to post Share on other sites
GITom1944 Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 The Longest Day - still one of my all time favorites, warts & all (as mentioned, U.S. gear in particular was less accurate than that used more recent films). Here's a link for color (or is that colour) documentary film taken during the making of the movie. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/battle-recaptured-aka-small-war/ . Here are stills from the sequence http://www.britishpathe.com/video/stills/filming-the-longest-day . The footage was all taken during the filming of several of the Pegasus Bridge scenes. Link to post Share on other sites
kammo-man Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 That's a great piece of color ! Owen Link to post Share on other sites
littlebuddy Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Great British movie making at its best !!! WANTED : RAF 1940 PATT FLYING BOOTS WANTED : DINGHY TYPE K ,TYPE A " ALWAYS WANTING USAAF ITEMS IN THEIR ORIGINAL PACKAGING " "WOULD ALSO LIKE 487th FS AND 515TH BS RELATED ITEMS " "Illegitmi non carborundum" Link to post Share on other sites
patches Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 A great topic that should be appropriately BUMPED UP considering the date. Link to post Share on other sites
patches Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Auf mich zu direkt! Link to post Share on other sites
gwb123 Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 It's been awhile since anyone has written on this thread, but I had a bit of a surprise when I tried to watch this through Netflix on-line the other day. Let me preface this by saying The Longest Day is one of my "feel good" movies, despite it's numerous shortcomings. I was under the weather and I was delighted to find it on their streaming service. So I got it all booted up and started running it, figuring I was in for a couple of hours of vicarious entertainment. However, I realized in my Dayquil induced haze that something was not right. It finally dawned on me that all of the characters, including the French and the Germans were speaking English! You have to understand, The Longest Day was one of my vehicles for practicing my rudimentary skills in each of these languages. I was quite proud that I could understand about 65% of the spoken dialog without the subtitles... not exactly fluent, but close enough. I was swearing a blue streak at Netflix for dumbing down the movie, quite sure they had dubbed over the foreign language parts, just like Ted Turner used to colorize classic black and white movies. (Thank goodness he never got around to doing Casablanca... that would have been criminal.) But then I noticed the lips were fully in sync with the English dialog. That would be a tough thing to do with dubbing. And then I noticed the inscription on the birthday cake for German General Erich Marcks was also written in English. What the heck was going on? Wikipedia provided the answer with this arcane fact under Release: "Unique for British- and American-produced World War II films of the time, all French and German characters speak in their own languages with subtitles in English. Another version, which was shot simultaneously, has all the actors speaking their lines in English (this version was used for the film's trailer, as all the Germans deliver their lines in English). However, this version saw limited use during the initial release. It was used more extensively during a late 1960s re-release of the film. The English-only version has been featured as an extra on older single disc DVD releases." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Day_(film) I am guessing that this was a safety measure in case the general public did not react well to the subtitles. But my view is that the French and the German added an air of authenticity. Apparently most movie goers at the time must have agreed. I have to admit, I'm not sure I can watch the English only version... it just feels like something is missing from a film that I have probably seen two dozen times. Gil BurketOmaha, NESpecializing in Fakes and Reproductionsof the Vietnam Warburkcats@hotmail.com "One is easily fooled by that which one loves." Moliere: Tartuffe Link to post Share on other sites
northcoastaero Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 I have not seen the movie in its entirety yet. Just different bits and pieces at a time when it airs on Memorial Day and/or Veterans Day. About the scene where the German car is being strafed by the allied aircraft and then crashes into an object on the side of the road, the object looks like a statue of Jesus with the figure jumping off the cross? Please correct me if I am wrong about this. Maybe I just misinterpreted the scene? Also, in my opinion, the oversized chin cups on the helmets look ridiculous. I hope to take the time in the future to view the entire movie. Link to post Share on other sites
patches Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 A BUMP Up for the Sixth of June. Link to post Share on other sites
patches Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 A BUMP Up for the Sixth of June. Link to post Share on other sites
Bodes Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Looks like Pluskat's binoculars may have "Made in???" on them.....When he's looking from the bunker into the channel, in the center where the binoculars pivot....Bodes Link to post Share on other sites
P-40Warhawk Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 This film never gets old. Every time I see it, I think of all the ETO vets I used to talk to. ***WANTED*** Uniforms to Pearl Harbor Survivors. Wanted: USN uniforms to Pearl Harbor survivors & WWII sunk ship survivors. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/264131-wanted-uniforms-to-pearl-harbor-and-sunk-ships-survivors/ WANTED - seriously interested in named Chief/Senior/Master TORPEDOMAN USN uniforms from the 1950s-1960s-1970s, and named USN jumpers or CPO coats from WWII. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/321179-wanted-torpedoman-uniforms-named-1920s-1970s/ "All Torpedoes running Hot, Straight and Normal." Link to post Share on other sites
patches Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 BUMP for 6 June. Link to post Share on other sites
patches Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 UP THE OX AND BUCKS!.........UP THE OX AND BUCKS! Link to post Share on other sites
M422A1 Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 I need to get this movie on DVD or Blueray, I only have it on VHS. Mike B. in 'Bama Link to post Share on other sites
jmd62 Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 Great movie. It's one of the few good WWII movies I don't own for whatever reason. I'm on it now though! Link to post Share on other sites
patches Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 JUNE.....JUNE Link to post Share on other sites
GITom1944 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 UP THE OX AND BUCKS!.........UP THE OX AND BUCKS! Thank you for posting this, Patches. I've seen The Longest Day dozens of times over the past 50 years or so. It sounds dumb now, but I always thought Maj. Howard was saying, "Up the action. mates... Up the action mates." Now I know better. This movie remains a great tribute to all who played a part in the Normandy Invasion. Tom Link to post Share on other sites
patches Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Thank you for posting this, Patches. I've seen The Longest Day dozens of times over the past 50 years or so. It sounds dumb now, but I always thought Maj. Howard was saying, "Up the action. mates... Up the action mates." Now I know better. This movie remains a great tribute to all who played a part in the Normandy Invasion. Tom I never knew what he was saying, one time when I borrowed the dvd (Prior to this I only watched it on T.V. or as a VHS rental) from my friend a few years back I kept replaying the sequence over and over again, that's when I knew LOL Link to post Share on other sites
patches Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 A BUMP Up for the Sixth of June. To show they should of done a little better job on the American Uniforms in this monumental movie, these are some of the Extras at the Omaha Sequence I just found now, see that they are currently serving GIs, from West Germany wearing the then current Yellow on Black U.S. ARMY Tapes and White NAME Tapes on the cotton sateen fatigues. Even Jeffery Hunter's Sgt Fuller's Field Jacket is a current one, the M951 where we see the Tapes have been tore off. Link to post Share on other sites
kammo-man Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 That guy in the left needs some PTToo much post war SOSOwen Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites
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