The Longest Day

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(03-30-2021, 09:52 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Great movies with great scenes. Another great scene is in "A Bridge to Far" about Operation Market Garden, when Major Julian Cook leads a daylight assault across the River Waal and Cook (Robert Redford) is rowing his butt off all the while saying Hail Mary's..... fantastic movie with Redford, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Ryan O'Neil, Anthony Hopkins, James Caan and others.





Another great WWII movie, though fiction, is "Fury"....





The German MG-42 was a feared weapon, nicknamed Hitler's Buzzsaw. Chambered in 7.92x57, it fired an astounding 1200 rounds per minute. I had a friend who died a few years ago, who had one. He told me I could shoot it anytime I wanted, I just had to pay to feed it. Never took him up on that one, as if I'm going to spend 1200 dollars in a minute, it's going to be doing something else.

Although a great movie; A Bridge too far is often used to illustrate leadership failure and the danger of group think. 

As to WWII movies Das Boot is hard to beat