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  2. The Longest Day (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic historical war drama film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name [3] about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox , and is directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American ...

  3. Werner Pluskat - Wikipedia

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    He was credited in the movie The Longest Day, a film about the D-Day invasion, with being the first German officer who saw the Allied invasion fleet on 6 June 1944, heading toward their landing zone at Omaha Beach. In an interview to the French news broadcast "Cinq Colonnes à la Une" aired on June 6, 1964 for the 20th anniversary of the Allied ...

  4. Bill Millin - Wikipedia

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    Millin's action on D-Day was portrayed in the 1962 film The Longest Day. [4] Millin was played by Pipe Major Leslie de Laspee, the official piper to the Queen Mother in 1961. [13] One set of Millin's bagpipes are exhibited at the Memorial Museum of Pegasus Bridge in Ranville, France. [14] Another set of his bagpipes are now displayed at Dawlish ...

  5. The Longest Day (book) - Wikipedia

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    The Longest Day is a 1959 book by Cornelius Ryan telling the story of D-Day, the first day of the World War II invasion of Normandy.It details the coup de main operation by gliderborne troops, which captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges (Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge) before the main assault on the Normandy beaches.

  6. The Longest Yarn - Wikipedia

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    The Longest Yarn is an artwork commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, which took place in 1944. [1] It consists of a number of dioramas created in knitted and crocheted wool. Each diorama represents a scene from the 1962 movie The Longest Day. [1] There are 80 dioramas - echoing the 80 years that have passed since the ...

  7. Close Combat: The Longest Day - Wikipedia

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  8. Colin Maud - Wikipedia

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    In the 1962 movie The Longest Day he was played by Kenneth More (who also served as a British naval officer in the Second World War). [20] Winnie, his dog, was a German Shepherd, and Werner Pluskat already had a dog of the same breed in the film, but Darryl F. Zanuck "improved upon history" by making Winnie an English Bulldog. [21]

  9. Eddie Albert - Wikipedia

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    He appeared in several military roles, including The Longest Day (1962), about the Normandy invasion. The film Attack (1956) provided Albert with a dark role as a cowardly, psychotic Army captain whose behavior threatens the safety of his company.