Ah, June 6. A Tuesday, even.

[thebitterguy]

Upstairs, History is running a documentary on Overlord. With the sheer amount that went wrong, it's great to think that so much worked so well as to get the invasion started.

A couple weeks ago, I took my copy of Saving Private Ryan to mr_weasel's Saturday work to watch with him. We only watched the first 35 minutes, the landing at Omaha Beach (instead of the much more interesting landing at Juno).

It's easy to forget how intense Spielberg made that film. He succeeds in putting you there, bullets whizzing and the confusion of battle (file clerks landing with typewriters while the tanks had been sent to the bottom of the channel).

It certainly put a damper on playing A&A that afternoon.

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[kallisti.livejournal.com]

Just an interesting note...James Doohan, Scotty, was storming Juno Beach on this day, and he got shot in the leg, finger and his life was saved by his silver cigarette case which stopped the bullet that hit him in the chest.

Of all the Star Trek cast that played heros, he was a true life hero.

ttyl

Amen re: "Scotty" Doohan

[dewline.livejournal.com]

*salutes the man's memory*

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

(instead of the much more interesting landing at Juno).

Actually my memory of the event is that Juno was slightly less interesting only because it came much closer to working exactly the way it was supposed to.

[thebitterguy]

Like not dumping the tanks in the middle of the channel?

Was the Canadian tank listed on the d-day figure list the swimming version?