Having seen and read too much about D-Day over the years I can say there's a tremendous amount of artistic license in the narrative and the mess at Omaha is almost completely airbrushed out, although it's probably true that the scale of the carnage there has been grossly underestimated until fairly recently. keep to the Fen Causeway
It turns out to have been an absolute shambles with some forces invading the wrong part of France and others finding it almost impossible to get beyond the shelter of the cliffs. Some parts of the german resistance at the top of the cliff weren't overrun until 3 days later. keep to the Fen Causeway
It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that while critics loved it, many Iraq vets thought it was ridiculous, even insulting.
As usual in narrative engineering, the ideal is far more important than the real.
yet that's what i heard it was.
sky offered it free the same night!
surprised they don't offer to pay us to watch it...
fishiest oscar sweep ever. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
