The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, during World War II.
What a beautiful sight to see all those ships taking up the entire horizon. Today is the 75th anniversary of D-day and I just want to say thank you to the greatest generation thank you for your service and R.I.P. to all those who fell.
d3in0nychu5 That is a really great scene and a couple of others I find to be hysterical from earlier in the film include: Red Buttons character ending up stuck on the clock face, The Frenchman listing to Resistance radio and hearing “John has a long mustache”, The Germans in the bunker freaking out saying “The INVASION IS HERE!” Then after this scene Sean Connery’s character in the water The two soldiers ( the moustache one played by Bernard Fox) trying to send a message with the pigeons then they fly towards the Germans “They’re going the wrong way! Not towards the Germans the other way, the other way” “Dam Traitors!” The arrival pass the barricades and the same Frenchman welcoming them with a bottle of wine “Viva France” “Welcome Americans” Then at the bridge scene the bagpipe player crossing in front with Connery and another soldier on the other side saying “There here goes he’s at it again! Have you ever heard such a bloody racket in all your life?!” to which Connery replies with “Leave to an Irishman to play the pipes! I was not expecting there to be so many funny moments in this film when I saw it. Also I love the island attack scene in the film “Patton” and he confuses Rommel’s men to which he says “Rommel you dam magnificent Bastard I READ YOUR BOOK!!”
“In a few minutes, we shall be engaged in battle. We must fire on our own country to drive the enemy out. This is the price we pay for freedom. Long live France!”
Same. He survived Omaha Beach, St. Lo, The Falaise gap, the drive into Belgium and Luxembourg, was stuck in Bastonge during the Battle of the Buldge, survived crossing the Rhine, Liberated a Nazi Concentration Camp and..... MEET THE GENERAL GEORGE PATTON. General Patton famously told my grandfather: "Get your ass to England and get me more fucking gas for my tanks" He died when I was 4 years old in 1998 from Cancer and a Heart attacks
That man knew exactly what was happening. I'd probably be waving a flag if it was me too. To know that the bombardment was from Allies would've made me cry my heart out.
"In a few minutes, we will have the honor to do battle. We shall have to fire on our own fatherland to drive the occupying enemy out of it. This is the price of freedom. Vive la France !"
That line gives me chills. I salute all the French veterans who never surrendered and continued the fight against impossible odds even when their country was under occupation.
My grandparents were teenagers in Brittany on D-Day, about 250km from Normandy and the beaches. They HEARD the sound of the bombing and the fighting. The violence required for the noise to be heard hundreds of miles away is probably impossible to imagine unless you have experienced it.
1:03 - The German beach patrol soldier in this video is looking at just a few hundreds of the 1,028 major warships, landing crafts, destroyers, cruisers, and other vessels approaching Omaha Beach. Little wonder that he is utterly panicked. It must have been one of the worst moments in his lifetime.
@@iggyarctic5711- Officially there were 6,939 ships involved, including 1,213 warships, landing crafts, destroyers, cruisers, etc. roughly divided between 5 beach heads. Most were landing crafts.
poor chubby kaffee kan grabs his neck then rifle in futility eyes bulging at the armada. One of the best short silent reactions ever in film oh the mule was pretty good too.
The sad part about the german defenders is that many of them were force conscripts from occupied nations, they were caught in a situation of having to fight on behalf of their oppressors simply to survive.
The general quality of German soldiers on the Atlantic Wall defences was low. 'Stomach' battalions made up of men with ulcers and other medical complaints, older men, some training units, low-intelligence truck loaders, etc. Polish, Russian and other captured troops young enough to serve as impressed soldiers. The only half-decent Infantry unit, the 352nd Regiment, was re-building itself on the Atlantic Wall, and found itself on Omaha beach, putting up the best defence of any on the Wall. One foreign soldier there was famously a man born in Korea, pressed into service in the Japanese army in Korea, sent to fight Russians during the Battle of Khalkin-Gol / Nomonhan Incident in 1939, captured and forced to work in the Russian army, transferred West to defend Moscow, captured by the Nazis, put into a 'Ost-Battalion', sent to the Atlantic Wall, captured by the US, then eventually sent home to Korea, to find himself stateless, as he was officially dead and hated by Koreans for joining their enemy's army. There's a movie about him.
Just a great movie all the way through. When you watch Saving Private Ryan you see clearly that Spielberg carried a number of things forward from this movie. And the cast of TLD is a who's who of A-List actors. "My dear Pluskat the allies don't have 5,000 ships." Actually the there were closer to 7,000 ships that participated in the Normandy landings. And on that day of June 6 1944 a huge fleet (with 16 aircraft carriers) left Pearl Harbor to attack and occupy Guam, Saipan, and Tinian in the Marianas Islands.
@@eklund86 i forget exactly but i found it on the internet with a little research! i was there on June 6 and they were having a party in the courtyard!
Props to Jean Servais (1910 - 1976) for how he played his scene as Contre-amiral Robert Jaujard. He clearly captured the balance of that sick feeling of having to give the order to fire on his homeland while also knowing that he had no other option.
au début de la guerre les maudits soviets étaient les alliés de l'allemagne; après avoir signé le pacte de Ribbentrop Molotov, ils ont divisé l'europe de l'est comme deux bêtes, l'ours et le loup, donc pas de mention honorable à la bête soviétique
To see that fleet , never in the history of the world has such a fleet existed. Stretching all across the horizon. The German - Sheer horror to see such a sight. The Frenchman - Complete joy for his country. I hoped he survived the bombardment .
I get chills still watching this scene - the sound of the gun turrets moving into firing position right after he says, "Vive Le France!" This film is a masterpiece.
because freedom is never free... vive le France! (what the hell; they're still our allies, and I remember Yorktown and Lafayette and Rochambeau and the French navy at the Chesapeake...)
It's almost ironic at the same time your army was trained and made what it was by a German! And the cavalry by a Pole and a Hungarian if I'm not mistaken?
and the French tried to F us the second the war was over with the XYZ affair....then 80 years later by almost siding with the Confederacy. They didn't side with us for our ideal but for our conveniece
"The Longest Day" is, about the 2. World War, one of the best films! We see it all the years in cinema and tv. We must well admire all the people involved in this film and for all the men and even ladies who so well prepared and fought in the D-Day (06.06.1944) in the Allied Army, Navy and Air-Force, like God soldiers, against nazism so cruel tyranny, for the freedom, in order the democracy, our best respect and all the blessings from God! A portuguese and christian family in Portugal. Respectfully. L+E
"The dice are on the carpet, it is hot in Suez!" These were the words the French were waiting for. The invasion was about to begin and they would soon be free
Just what effect the bombardment achieve ? After the battle was over it would be quite obvious where shells landed. Did ships fire at land targets only 'by sight' from the ship it's self ? or did they have aerial/ground spotters ? Or with the poor visibility, just compass bearings etc. ( Were the midget submarines marking the landing zones of use as a reference ?)
I love this scene! Just as the German soldier was horrified when he saw the thousands of ships coming so the French gentleman was surprised and delighted. Did this character really exist and do these things like offer any Allied soldier champge ? ('Cause someone said the house was still there, and looked he. the same) P Proud relatio n or relative of 2 WW2-Omaha Beach vets, one who came early to set uo uo. Up radio communications and one whose orders got mixed up and arrived a day late.er
Son Tung - I've looked, too. Can't find which one. Both were at Omaha Beach, and he was probably aboard one or the other. Edit: The Montcalm was the French Admiral's flagship. So it was likely he was aboard her.
Gert frobe, the nco on the horse, was in real life an SS MAJOR during the war. He was not working in any death camps and was cleared of any war crimes. One 1 occasion he actually rescued jews and got them to safety using forged documents.
True, but it was navy destroyers whose captains risked grounding their ships that provided the close in artillery support that greatly helped get them off that beach.
@@lawrencewestby9229Yes this was very true - I meant the pre-landing bombardments and also the air bombardments as well. The Navy destroyers proved invaluable also on Juno and Sword.
db2664 I absolutely agree, area bombardments against entrenched or hardened positions was rarely effective. It wasn't at Normandy, nor at many Pacific islands, or even at Monte Cassino where the bombing just made things worse for the attackers. The destroyers were able to provide close in well directed artillery against specific targets which is why they were effective.
@@Moggy471 The Navy only had 30 minutes to engage the defences before the troops hit the beach as the landings were that soon after full daybreak. The rocket firing landing craft opened up from too far out and the rockets landed short. I think the major issue was the US forces in that sector were too welded to following the operational plans and timings to the letter and failed to take into account that the weather could screw things up.
Poor horse,he didn´t deserved to be gfightened with the bombs,only the soldier with the milk.Was it a horse or a "burro"?I don´t knowt he word in english.
When the old man starts cheering and waved the French flag I was like, 'Heck yeah! Viva le France!' While watching this with my father and sisters... damn I miss em..
That was at least half of the point of the movie, that almost everyone involved was stuck in the middle of it, no matter which side they were on. Winning was one thing but merely surviving it was the main objective for most.
