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2. The Longest Day (film) - Wikipedia

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   The Longest Day eventually became the box office hit Fox needed, with $30.5 million [citation needed] in worldwide theatrical rentals on a $7.5 million budget. [1] It was the highest-grossing black-and-white movie at the time. Zanuck's production company (DFZ Productions) received 50% of the profits, and by 1964 had received over $5.8 million. [26]

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. 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.

5. John Howard (British Army officer) - Wikipedia

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   Before D-Day, Howard's company was selected to carry out the assault on the Caen and Orne River bridges and he became personally responsible for their training and the planning of the assault. During D-Day he led the company in a successful coup-de-main assault that gained control of the bridges and then held them until relieved.

6. D-Day from above: The haunting aerial images which show ... - AOL

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   On the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy these haunting pictures show how lives were changed forever by the invasion.. From reconnaissance images taken by RAF crews before and ...

7. 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 ...

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. 'Bridgerton' Debuts Longest Sex Scene Yet: What Nicola ...

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   The fan-favorite romance was sealed with the longest sex scene in the show's history. At nearly six minutes long, the spicy episode five scene is set to a string cover of Ariana Grande 's "POV."