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When his parachute catches on a church, Private Steele (Red Buttons) watches in horror as the rest of his paratrooper squad gets slaughtered by Nazis.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each actor speaks in his or her native language with subtitles translating for the benefit of the audience (alternate "takes" were made of each scene with the foreign actors speaking English, but these were seen only during the first network telecast of the film in 1972). The stars are listed alphabetically, with the exception of John Wayne, who as Lt. Colonel Vandervoort gets separate billing. Others in the huge cast include Eddie Albert, Jean-Louis Barrault, Richard Burton, Red Buttons, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Gert Frobe, Curt Jurgens, Peter Lawford, Robert Mitchum, Kenneth More, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Jean Servais, Rod Steiger and Robert Wagner. Paul Anka, who wrote the film's title song, shows up as an Army private. Scenes include the Allies parachuting into Ste. Mere Englise, where the paratroopers were mowed down by German bullets; a real-life sequence wherein the German and Allied troops unwittingly march side by side in the dark of night; and a spectacular three-minute overhead shot of the troops fighting and dying in the streets of Quistreham. The last major black-and-white road-show attraction, The Longest Day made millions, enough to recoup some of the cost of 20th Century Fox's concurrently produced Cleopatra.
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Cast: Red Buttons
Directors: Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Andrew Marton
Producers: Elmo Williams, Darryl F. Zanuck
Screenwriters: Romain Gary, James Jones, Cornelius Ryan, David Pursall, Jack Seddon
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@ZGundam83 Год назад

I just watched this clip, while sitting at a cafe, across the square from the Sainte-Mère-Église church. It hits you differently knowing that when you are there

@marth8878 Год назад

I did the exact same, it hits different

@wayfaerer320 2 года назад

This is one of the most brilliant scenes in cinematic history. The building in flames, the paratroopers being helplessly slaughtered as they land, and the ominous droning of the church bells - it's directed and filmed so well it's amazing. It literally gives me chills anytime I watch this scene and I've seen it hundreds of times. The Longest Day is a masterpiece.

@richardstokes1290 2 года назад

even though it never happened!

@NostalgicGamerRickOShay 2 года назад

@@richardstokes1290 Umm, the guy hanging from the church really happened. He had to play dead for 2 hours.

@CrossOfBayonne 2 года назад

@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay Don't forget that many paratroopers ended up lost and were cut off from their units and had to find other squads in the middle of Normandy

@alanstevens1296 Год назад

Indeed ... and back in the days of black-and-white!

@alanstevens1296 Год назад

@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay Yes ... the scene was very close to the actual history.

@johncombs2990 3 года назад

After the war John Steele was made an honorary citizen of Sainte-Mere-Eglise and has a tavern there named after him. He visited the town several times before his death on May 14, 1969. He is buried in the Masonic Cemetery in his home town of Metropolis, Illinois

@kaymuldoon3575 Месяц назад

I wondered what had happened to him. Thank you for the info.

@forrestcalkins93 6 лет назад

A fun fact, private steele ( played by red buttons ) was a real guy who actually did get caught on the bell tower. They have a parachute hanging from that very bell tower as a monument to him

@AshleyPomeroy 4 года назад

Also, in real life Red Buttons actually did have red buttons.

@oldrocker74 4 года назад

At 1:01, the bayonet hits the ground; the camera zooms in on Pvt. Steele's wide-eyed look of terror, as if he's thinking Ohhhhh,Sh@#$*&!!!!!!!

@07foxmulder 3 года назад

That’s not a fun “fact” because there’s no proof of this event actually happening.

@pauldonnelly910 2 года назад

@@07foxmulder Well, except for the all the eyewitnesses who said it happened at the time.

@Anonymous-bn1lo 2 года назад

@@07foxmulder it happened brother

@niknak495 5 лет назад

The fire you see in the clip was started by an earlier aeriel attack. The church bells rang to alert the locals and a 'bucket brigade' was formed to douse the flames. Then, two planes misdropped troops of the 82nd airborne directly into the town. Germans were already present supervising the 'bucket brigade' as the paratroopers landed in the town square making them easy targets. Pvt Steele is the man dangling from the church. He is probably the luckiest man in the 82nd airborne. Most of the misdropped paratroopers were killed or wounded but Pvt Steele survived. He hung for 2 hours, playing dead until the Germans took him prisoner. He escaped captivity when the 505th parachute regiment attacked the town a few hours later. Pvt Steele survived the war.

@mraxelraven 4 года назад

wow, were you there?

@AdmiralAckbar. 3 года назад

m Raven No but it’s detailed in the book this movie is based off of with the same name by an author named Cornelius Ryan. Wonderful writer and actually wrote the book A Bridge Too Far which was also made into a film 25 years after this one (personally one of my favorite war films).

@701CPD 3 года назад

There were also several members of F ("Fox") Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division who landed in and around the church square in St. Mere Eglise that night, before the 82nd Airborne serials came over. Several of those 101st paratroopers were killed and several escaped.

@nickcc2003 2 года назад

@@AdmiralAckbar. Christ I guess where m Raven from there are no books Or history oriented articles. Dope!

@rc59191 Год назад

@@mraxelraven you ever hear of this thing called research?

@dexterellis7818 5 лет назад

For a war movie made in the 1960s, pre-Bonnie and Clyde, these scenes still pack a punch in its depiction of violence.

@optimisticwhovian1726 5 лет назад

Yeh despite some elements of the film not quite standing up to more modern depictions of war they certainly don't pull any punches with this scene showing one of them landing inside the fire to be burned to death, that's pretty graphic for 1962 audiences.

@FluppyBagoo4016 5 лет назад

I can't imagine what he saw being stuck.. watching friends being cut down and he can't fight back to protect the others ..never forget

@AdmiralAckbar. 3 года назад

As you said obviously the effects aren’t there as far as “small arms fire gore” but the intensity of the moment is depicted very well. Absolutely an insane moment to be a part of and I don’t mean that in a fun or cool way

@danielfolk5266 Год назад

It's rated G too

@Mr.Tahkos 7 лет назад

the guy hanging from the church, Pvt Steele is my great uncle

@carloscastellon9882 6 лет назад

Red Buttons? Cool! Watched him first as Henry Phyfe.

@fabianpatrizio2865 6 лет назад

I've been to St Mere Eglise :) was cool

@guyfroml 6 лет назад

Cool! Are you familiar with Sgt. John Ray of Gretna, Louisiana? According to the eye witness accounts of your great uncle and another paratrooper (Pvt. Ken Russell) who also was caught on the belfry of the church in Ste. Mere-Eglise, it was Sgt. Ray, who after being shot in the hip and abdomen by a German, was able to get to his knees, draw his Colt .45 and shot the German in the back of the head killing him instantly, just as the German was pointing his rifle up at Pvts. Steele and Russell about to fire upon them. Both men later gave accounts saying it was Sgt. Ray's actions why they survived that morning. Sgt. Ray later succumbed to his wounds. I mention Sgt. Ray because I know his widow and family well, and both Pvts. Russell and Steele years after the war located his widow and personally thanked her, telling her the story of John's heroism that June 6th morning saving their lives.

@williamdixon8882 6 лет назад

Tahkos ii

@lex1945 6 лет назад

there's still a parachute with a model hanging at the churchtop in ste mere eglise. when i went to normandy the first place i wanted to see was ste mere eglise. i've read the book of Cornelius ryan many times before i decided to visit all the placed described in the book. one of my most interesting holidays ever wich i will remember forever.

@fiveohdeuce7574 3 года назад

Last summer I met an airborne vet in Pennsylvania named Les Cruise. He jumped into St. Mere with the 82nd Airborne. Amazingly, he and his entire stick hit their intended dropzone. They fell in with a large column of other 82nd troopers as they filed off the dropzone just outside St. Mere Eglise. His experience certainly was out of the norm that particular night.

@danielbaldwin6173 5 лет назад

Watching this on June 6th now the 75th anniversary of that day, and the many great men who served on it. Never forget every Allied soldier who died that day! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇷🇺

@karlhanks1967 5 лет назад

I strongly doubt that there were any Russians involved in the allied invasion of France but ok...

@danielbaldwin6173 5 лет назад

@@karlhanks1967 Not that I know of? Lol No what happened was the Allies (🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷) and Russia (🇷🇺) who were also part of the Allies. They had planned together that when the Allies in the West attacked on June 6th, and then the Russians would start their counterattack in the East so they could have the German army in a two front war. That's why I added the Russian flag along with the others for who fell that day. Because even though no Russian were there in the beach landings, in the West they started their counterattack against the Germans on June 6th.

@karlhanks1967 5 лет назад

@@danielbaldwin6173 Well yeah the video's more about the landings in France but I get your point my dude

@danielbaldwin6173 5 лет назад

@@karlhanks1967 👍

@hughjanus2192 4 года назад

Go to hell and never rise up again, you monster.

@lovatojonasfan1 6 лет назад

Most paratroopers missed their drop zones that night but to land in the very town you're suppose to take must've been horrid. You're scrambling to shoot back at the Germans below while also making sure you land so ou don't break your legs.

@ronaldfinkelstein6335 5 лет назад

There was a large building on fire...the scene in the movie. A man, carrying mortar ammo, fell INTO the fire. I would think it a mercy that the mortar ammo cooked off, and exploded.

@tomaszskowronski1406 5 лет назад

You don't shoot while falling. Never. Most of the weapons were in a bag strapped to the paratroopers leg. Some did in fact tuck it into the webbing to be able to fight quicker after landing, but it was dangerous (could fall out or even knock out the man when the parachute opened) and definitelly not suitable to shoot while falling. Also, every paratrooper and german seem to have submachine guns here, while reality only NCO's (so 1, max 2 guys per squad) received them and the rest had rifles (M1 Garand and Kar 98 Mauser) but its 1962, and all older movies are prone to this. machineguns are much more hollywood.

@richardphilpott1013 4 года назад

Poor bastards. They didn't have much of a chance did they?

@pbf7719 2 года назад

Paratroopers didn't fire their weapons at the enemy as they descended. That's strictly Hollywood.

@h3lld1v3rfilms6 2 года назад

Just the fact that these guys didn't have time to remove their jump gear as soon as they landed. They had to fight back that quick.

@NYRM1974 4 года назад

AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY 101st & 82nd Bless you all for your gallant service. My uncle was there....... I'm the only one he spoke to about this fiasco..... I cry for them the men of honor.

@CrossOfBayonne 3 года назад

I like your profile photo 1st MARDIV

@stevearizona521 5 лет назад

"I was the paratrooper who got stuck on the bell tower." --- Brian Williams, NBC News

@davidbrouwers7309 3 года назад

There were actually 2 Troopers who landed on the church steeple, on opposite sides.

@z-rex6068 5 лет назад

This scene is so memorable

@AndyP998 Год назад

One of best scenes on this movie, shows brutal combat from both sides.

@blank557 Год назад

Henri-Jean Renaud remembers the night the Americans floated down from the sky. He was 10 years old in 1944, the son of the mayor of STE.-MÈRE-ÉGLISE on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, France. On the night of June 5, Mr. Renaud recalls, his father had been called away, because a house just off the village square had caught fire. “Maybe a half-hour later, we hear a terrible noise,” said Mr. Renaud, whose family lived over the pharmacy his father also owned and operated. It was the sound of planes, hundreds of them, flying low overhead. “We hear shouting outside, guns. My brother and I tried to look out the window. My mother said, ‘No, no!’ pulled us back and we all knelt and prayed.” Mr. Renaud, who is now 80, remembers his father returning home an hour or so later, excited. There had been rumors that the long-awaited invasion of occupied France was imminent, but concerns that the Allies might first send limited, reconnaissance missions into the area. “It’s too many!” Mayor Alexandre Renaud told his family. “It’s not commandos. It’s the liberation!” Maurice Renaud says that what really helped cement the bond between the town and the troops was the oft-overlooked fact that for two days after the liberation of Ste.-Mère-Église the Germans tried to retake it. Their counteroffensive was held off by a few hundred paratroopers until reinforcements from Utah Beach arrived. “If the Germans had succeeded, they would have destroyed the whole town and killed everybody,” Mr. Renaud says. “Thank God, these guys succeeded in stopping them. The feeling of the people here is so strong because of that.” --French Town Is a Living D-Day Memorial. NY Times.

@BostonSportsFan91 2 года назад

God this makes me so sad. God bless F Company 505th and the all the paratroopers that dropped into Normandy

@SanDeezyBreezy61986 5 лет назад

The sound engineering crew made the MG-42 sound more like an AA gun.

@SanDeezyBreezy61986 3 года назад

@Mr X hahaha touché

@SanDeezyBreezy61986 3 года назад

@Mr X sounded more like an MG 34 than an MG 42. And I mean, how hard would it have been to sample an MG 42? I’m sure there were a ton available when this movie was made.

@bluewolffilms6346 7 лет назад

how to survive this shit Step 1: land if your not killed in the air Step 2: play dead

@nerva- Год назад

Watching this as a kid, perhaps taught me about war more than any other single scene did -- so much of who lives or dies comes down to luck and unanticipated factors. Many other scenes in the movie serve to drive home this point -- war isn't fair, and there's nothing glamorous about it.

@optimisticwhovian1726 5 лет назад

Ive never seen Red Buttons in anything else but I always remember him as this stranded soldier watching his unit die while the church bells ring out.

@stewartmcminn7773 3 месяца назад

The Poseidon Adventure is the only other film I know

@YDDES 6 лет назад

A bit of trivia: One of the Douglas C-47's that dropped the paratroopers over St Mere Eglise still flies in Holland.

@nighthawkdutchchameleon9815 6 лет назад

YDDES cool

@nighthawkdutchchameleon9815 6 лет назад

Sometimes i see one

@YDDES 6 лет назад

Here in Sweden we have 2 flyable DC-3's. One of them sometimes fly over where I live. One can hear at a long distance, when it comes. A very special sound.

@Okiedog1 3 года назад

The look on his face at 1:01...

@GuineaPigEveryday 2 месяца назад

I have had this image stuck in my head for years of this phenomenally suspenseful moment, had no idea where it was from until I got this suggested to me, what a brilliant scene

@freebeerfordworkers 10 месяцев назад

In his book Currahee! A Screaming Eagle at Normandy. Donald R. Burgett wrote that afterwards Eisenhower paraded the Air Corps had them face the paratroopers and promise they would never make such mistakes again.

@None-zc5vg 3 года назад

A lot of parachutists were killed when their C-47s flew in below the ordered drop height (to avoid flak); their 'chutes didn't have time to open.

@herbertpreira1701 4 года назад

He lost hos hearing for several days after that

@poilochien 3 месяца назад

my former neighbour lived almost the same scenery when he's been dropped with his regiment during the battel of bizerte, 1961 ...

@tglimm Месяц назад

Lol, cutting between the paratrooper's face and scenes of mayhem is like one of those bloopers compilation clips.

@ravenousbane3617 5 лет назад

There’s a Parachute at St Mere Englise on the church to honour him

@stephenlaccohee946 2 года назад

How did the get him down from the steeple

@kdubselassie Месяц назад

Wow thanks guy's👍🙌

@WalterDWormack214 2 года назад

Some WWII Officer once said that deploying troops by 'parachute' was a dangerously inefficient way to get men to take a objective. This particular clip sort of 'confirms' this opinion.

@SoggySoxSaga 2 года назад

Depends on the circumstances so the Army never bought into that. They even started a new Airborne division in Alaska this year.

@HappyHermitt 10 месяцев назад

Bad weather and flak guns can put any plan off course.

@tufftraveller4784 6 лет назад

Sounds like every bloody Sunday where I live lol

@beerten202 3 года назад

Fun fact: a town i believe it was near point du hoc actually has a parachute hanging on the church tower with a photo of the guy himself

@DondeArandas 5 лет назад

Great classic picture!

@grant8917 7 месяцев назад

I can only imagine what it is was like for the paratroopers who never had a chance to defend themselves and were shot and killed once they landed.

@danielfolk5266 2 года назад

This is by far my favorite scene in this movie.

@joie8465 2 года назад

I feel bad for that paratrooper who got burned in the fire building

@steveboor8614 28 дней назад

Semper fidelis, to fox company❤. USMC 🇺🇸. 82nd, 505th , 2nd battalion. Airborne!

@ChimpyTV Год назад

this traumatized me way too much as a kid

@montieluckett7036 Год назад

I read where after the paratroopers returned to England, Eisenhower had them assemble at the airfield. On the opposite side were the pilots and aircrews that dropped them. He never said a word to the troops, but he laid into the Air Corp personnel and told them nothing like their performance that night had better ever happen again. It never did.

@daveypanzermeijer7285 Год назад

I was there, he is still there haha

@elbunnydabest 4 года назад

This is Fiasco, man.

@HydroSnips 2 года назад

Y’know, in recent years some historians have raised a few “doubts” over this story. Steele’s notes to Cornelius Ryan are fairly circumspect, and Ryan added a lot of artistic licence. One of those stories that may have developed a life of their own taking it further away from the actuality…

@inisipisTV 2 года назад

No, this one is true, based on Pvt. Steele’s experience. In fact there’s another guy besides him that got stuck too. Cornelius Ryan only put in the book that had two or more independent eye-witness of accounts. There are actually many fantastical incidents that happened that he recorded from eye-witnesses but didn’t put in the book due to finding no corroborating witness.

@johnballard1427 Год назад

@@inisipisTV actually there is more evidence supporting that it didn’t happen, rather than it did happen. We will never be able to conclusively claim whether it did or did not. I recommend watching WW2TV’s discussion about it. They dive in as deep as you could possibly go, and after watching it, I’m sure your mind will be changed

@HappyHermitt 10 месяцев назад

@@johnballard1427It happened. And he wasn't the only one hanging from it. Another guy cut himself down. A John Ray saved their lives and died doing so.

@Elcore 6 месяцев назад

@@HappyHermittThank you for your service, sir. You must be about 100 years old to have been there that day and witnessed this scene.

@stevebaer50 5 лет назад

I love this movie, I have seen it at least 70 times. But those poor guys over St. Mere Eglise came down to their massacre. They were dropped many miles away from their drop zone? That one guy who landed in the burning building was an ammo carrier that is why he exploded tremendously? That is Pvt. Steele according to the guy who said that is his relative? Almost hanging around accidentally that actually happened to him. To hear those church bells ringing for several hours would drive anyone up the wall with misery and going deaf ears for some time. The guy who was shooting down ward the force from his weapon would make him go upward and to the side. Hmmmm war is like having extreme nightmares but with your eyes open wide not sleeping. Nightmare last few hours not years almost a life time having recurring extreme nightmares of the event. Vietnam War veterans is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Battered wives, abused child just like me when I was a kid back then, survived a terrible storm, Holocaust survivors,etc. have PTSD.

@markbravo6842 5 лет назад

Yes I have watched this movie over the decades myself I even have it in my DVD collection as to the paratrooper landing in the burning building ammo carrier is the Infintry i'm thinking the first explotion was his hand grenade so that he didn't burn in the flames and the second one was his TNT charge to send him off to valhalla.

@HappyHermitt 10 месяцев назад

Mr. Steele, may he rest in peace, was actually wounded in the foot during his descent. Not while hanging from the church.

@pascha1903 4 года назад

wo finde ich den Film in deutsch?

@markienatnots9479 Месяц назад

The Longest day is so historically incorrect it’s almost a joke.

@victorvaldes9856 Месяц назад

wa wa wa wa wa

@crumdoggy 5 лет назад

The German paratroopers had a similar massacre on a much larger scale in Crete.

@Crackshotsteph 4 года назад

@The Outlaw Torn That's why the US Paratroopers get extra pay and a volunteer force.

@joey1317 4 года назад

But no one cares about German paratroopers getting killed!

@caligulas_horse 4 года назад

@crumdoggy Agreed. I think the German high command expected too much from their fallschirmjägers.

@Victor-07-04 2 года назад

When they were first used in Holland during the German invasion of Holland they failed too.

@bruhhhh9775 2 года назад

Đoan nay hay...ôi lính dù lính của ô.John Wayne

@jbbizzle828 4 года назад

What kind of church bells are those?

@CrossOfBayonne 2 года назад

Cathedral bells, They were being rung because the Aliies arrived

@joeytacey743 2 месяца назад

Private Steele survived world war II... only to end up dying from cigarettes😢

@charlietheanteater3918 5 лет назад

0:00-0:05 Me going down to the fridge at 3 Am trying not to make any noise

@angloaust1575 2 года назад

French paras jumped into dienbienphu at night in an ever decreasing drop zone at low altitudes with flak from viet anti aircraft guns!

@africanheru2863 4 года назад

Helluva jump 🙁

@orangestoneface 6 лет назад

in the end chute rips then what happens after end, but seemed he could hold on some bars behind him. think its not from longes day can not find scene there

@lovatojonasfan1 6 лет назад

This scene is from that movie. I've seen the movie several times and remember this part vividly.

@RakeshRakesh-ju6zt 6 лет назад

jgroognldie

@RakeshRakesh-ju6zt 6 лет назад

+Matthew Brunette kgabeinczory

@AudieHolland 6 лет назад

EXPLANATION: paratrooper gets stuck with parachute on churchtower. Paratrooper sees his comrades getting slaughtered by the German defenders. Paratrooper decides to join the fighting and tries to cut himself loose with his knife. Parachute starts tearing so paratrooper stops trying to free himself. Knife falls, alerting German soldier who looks up and shoot the paratrooper in the foot. Paratrooper decides to play for dead. Keeping still, he avoids his parachute from tearing further and the German soldiers ignore him because they think he's dead. ---- Of course, this scene was embellished slightly to make the paratrooper seem more heroic. In reality, he was hit in the foot while still floating down under his parachute. After getting stuck on the churchtower, he decided to play for dead immediately, which saved his life. After the combat was over, the Germans noticed he was still alive and got him down from the tower, making him a POW.

@JohnJohn-pe5kr 5 лет назад

AudieHolland The paratroopers were easy targets, and Steele was one of only a few non-casualties. His parachute was caught in one of the pinnacles of the church tower, causing the suspension lines of his parachute to stretch to their full length, leaving him hanging on the side of the church. The wounded paratrooper hung there limply for two hours, pretending to be dead, before the Germans took him prisoner. He later escaped from the Germans and rejoined his division when US troops of the 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment attacked the village capturing thirty Germans and killing another eleven. He was awarded the Bronze Star for valor and the Purple Heart for being wounded in combat.

@fionaedwardes8801 7 месяцев назад

I just farted.

@karlhanks1967 5 лет назад

Who was ringing the bells though?

@trevormiles5852 4 года назад

Quasimodo jr. I just did not want to leave you hanging..

@bartonwishart9994 4 месяца назад

after WWI , all churches in France were equipped with a rack system with 2 counter weights. Once the system was engaged by the " bedeau " ( a secular attendant ) only him could stop it manually by blocking the rack ( later and until today the device is electric ) . From 1930 onwards, many churches were equipped with a system coupled with the clock and operated the bells indicating the hour of day , 9 shots for 9 o'clock for example ...( and only one shot for half hours ).The bell for a disaster was continuous so that all the inhabitants came to help , including the " bedeau " . On the other hand, about forty civilians were killed that night ... the "bedeau" may have been one of them.

@geoffreycarson2311 5 месяцев назад

That MG42 😣😣😣😣😣😔😔😔😔Dreadful !!!g

@michaeldelahunty2440 7 месяцев назад

Is that Red Buttons ???

@poilochien 3 месяца назад

yes !

@joaoalfredo2848 4 года назад

Glória eterna a todos os AVIADORES, SOLDADOS e MARINHEIROS que participaram do DIA D..6 de Junho de 1944..O MAIS LONGO DOS DIAS. jacb.6.6.2020. São Paulo. BRASIL.

@burhan4052 2 года назад

Tienes Trabajo?

@olatadeoladoja4204 4 года назад

Just a spectator

@user-ho3dz1ft1r 5 месяцев назад

Ww2 greatest generation

@glennhopkins4294 4 года назад

Denise Pettet

@canerguener8664 Год назад

Watched this on the 40th anniversary. Was and is still epic.

@MarkCollins-ke5vz Месяц назад

Been there

@markcollins9903 3 года назад

I saw his statu.

@yeeyee8928 3 года назад

My dad knew the guy that actually got stuck over the church in ww2 and they both worked together

@voldax2001 3 года назад

Yeah his name was curtis Ramsey

@yeeyee8928 3 года назад

@@voldax2001 thanks

@jacobramsey4200 3 года назад

He was m grandfather

@jacobramsey4200 3 года назад

Not the actor

@nepnepguythegreatestofall6032 3 года назад

@@voldax2001 stop lying

@goshomladenoff3037 2 года назад

A Kilometer A way. A Hun knee. Finish that Department store supervisor(for the wife). :0)

@goshomladenoff3037 2 года назад

Just talking :)

@goshomladenoff3037 2 года назад

And fore,,,,(woe) yew | (woman) man for him... foreman ( for his employment) ( Non Commission Officer??? N CO.)

@TheDisproof 5 лет назад

He looks a bit like George W Bush.

@vaughnvail5279 5 лет назад

TheDisproof thats what i thought to.

@airforce262able 7 лет назад

I heard that back in ww2 you had to wait until the paratroopers touch the ground idk im probably wrong

@tripsaplenty1227 7 лет назад

I have never heard that but maybe according to agreed upon rules of war you are right. In reality though there are no rules in battle. Everyone on all sides wants to get out alive and fairness is not what most soldiers are concerned with. Paratroopers were killed at any opportunity.

@briannicklas109 7 лет назад

A pilot was to be considered "at your mercy" and not to be shot once in his parachute (not followed by all) but paratroops were combatants under the chute or on the ground. Pilots may have had a small sidearm, but some paratroops were well armed, even under the silk, as seen here.

@RedStarRogue 7 лет назад

With the Polish drop in A Bridge too Far it was the same story: The Germans were waiting and gunned them down while still in the air.

@fabianpatrizio2865 6 лет назад

Crete, 1941....The Australians, New Zealanders and Brits and Greeks/Cretans...shot hundreds of German paratroopers as they landed...it was a massacre, though the Germans still won...amazing

@dejomonylemon956 6 лет назад

I thought that was generally just pilots bailing out in distress. From ww1 biplanes used to strafe paracuting pilots

@xanderm7231 4 года назад

I feel bad for all of the American Paratroopers because there was no cover for them when they landed and they had a hard time getting up cause of their heavy equipment And I think Pvt Steele is lucky that he got caught on that roof cause if not he would end up like his squad

@pinezskt_markdemolitionder7991 6 лет назад

Almost no talking

@optimisticwhovian1726 5 лет назад

Almost? No there's none, just action sound effects.

@matthewgutierrez2142 3 года назад

1944

@mattep74 Год назад

According to historians the mistake of puttning paratroopers down spred out created more confusion for the germans than if they were dropped wete they should be.

@guidondijkstra2074 3 года назад

Only thompson and mp40?

@KrillLiberator 3 года назад

1960's WW2 was full of SMGs, made for more dakka back in the day. WW2 was about the machine-guns, right? Ya gotta let it go.

@CrossOfBayonne 2 года назад

And if you notice throughout the movie everyone carries an M1 Carbine which is one of my favorite weapons but in reality nobody used them on a large scale.

@classicgunstoday1972 Год назад

@@CrossOfBayonneactually a lot of paratroopers did use the M1 Carbine (original and paratrooper version) as well as officers and non-commissioned officers. A lot lighter and actually more powerful and greater range than the Thompson or German MP40

@CrossOfBayonne Год назад

@classicgunstoday1972 True and Carbines were in fact originally meant for the European theatre, Some were also used in the Pacific though not on a large scale most troops carried the M1 rifle in that part of WWII.

@wackyboy0730 5 лет назад

Me in pubg when i landed in pochinki and got stuck from the church while me teamates die and they can't kill me

@angloaust1575 Месяц назад

They would have dropped much quicker in reality!

@OrganicMilkGang 2 года назад

Why are all the paratroopers missing their shots and the Germans are hotshots

@friendcomputer2293 2 года назад

I've never done it before, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and wager it's hard to shoot straight when you're not on a solid surface.

@OrganicMilkGang 2 года назад

@@friendcomputer2293 Well I meant the paratroopers on the ground shooting fully automatic and cant hit one shot.

@friendcomputer2293 2 года назад

@@OrganicMilkGang I only saw one actually manage to get to his feet and start shooting. Looked to me like he hit a German or two before going down.

@sus_99 4 года назад

Пиздец, mp40 без приклада от бедра и.... Мдааа

@themeettrees 4 года назад

I dont know, but this actor reminds me of George W.

@africanheru2863 4 года назад

Hot LZ ☠️

@thesenateguard3023 3 года назад

Can't tell if this is supposed to be serious or a comedy

@richardstokes1290 2 года назад

It never happened - according to latest research. Hollywood fantasy based on Ryan's embellishment of a dubious unproven anecdote.

@spinningbackkick6021 Год назад

Movies are rarely accurate. But serve to point out an issue by making a deliberate visual..

@africanheru2863 4 года назад

Hot LZ😠

@nonanlique7570 5 лет назад

He got stuck for 3 days and then one of the enemy saw him and shot him to death I will never forget

@duglife2230 5 лет назад

No. He survived the war. He died of throat cancer in 1969. And he was only there for 2 hours as well.

@jamesvangurpan1959 5 лет назад

non anlique....WRONG!

@michaelpriller1329 5 лет назад

I was his newspaper carrier when he lived in Mooresville ,Indiana in the early 1960's . Very nice man.

@voldax2001 3 года назад

Fake he lived In ohatchee Alabama and he was my grandpa

@jacobramsey4200 3 года назад

Part of that is true he die but not 1969

@nyoimanis 5 лет назад

Look so funny :v

@rogerlynch5279 2 года назад

Some newer studies have reviealed that the actual event with the Parahoot Soldier being stuck at the tower is more an anecdote Cornelius Ryan had put in his book. Indeed Private Steele was caught close by the church and later on could free himself. Those events took plays but beeing stuck there for hours at the tower - it is a questionalble detail. But even before Book and Movie wildly known. It even found it´s way into the scripts for the late Fifties, early Sixties TV series COMBAT !, here the episode THE STEEPLE ( Season 3, ep 21), RU-vid: put on the Net by GR160298 That was a well done executed script in an interesting entertainment show about the lives of an Infantry unit after the Landing