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The heroes who fought and fell on the longest day
Their exploits, and the regiment's name, featured in the 1962 film The Longest Day, which tells the story of the Normandy landings. Movie-goers heard actor Richard Todd, a D-Day veteran who played ...
‘An excessive amount of slaughter’: What The Longest Day got right – and wrong – about D-Day
Based on the book by Cornelius Ryan, The Longest Day, released on September 26 1962 after 10 years of research and writing, ...