The doc was well done and informative. The narrator was annoying! He lowers his voice at the end of each sentence to the point you cannot hear him. I had to turn on captions.
3 Reviews
Very Good Doc Annoying Narrator!
mrm-7243817 August 2021
Just incredible
imissyoumom200119 February 2022
I didn't miss a moment of this !
I now understand some things I had not realized before such as the long delay getting the password out, the drifting away from designated landing spots and the incredible bravery of each man who served.
If things had gone smoother, many lives would not have been lost ,but the whole thing seemed to make sense and again, the delay of food and water alone must have been something for our boys to endure.
I love our military and lam so proud of these youngsters that served and the med who led them.
Rudders son was so poignant in telling the story, so sad to hear everybody in the film had now passed. I am 73 and my dad volunteered in WW2 and his last battle was at Okinawa and less than 3 years later my sister and I had been born. I used to look thru my dads big chest of stuff from the war, we played on his cot and tried on the outfits and hats.
God bless every soldier and their families who loved them.
And that included every soldier since that battle. I am so proud of my country and our Military and honor the families who's loved one didn't make it home alive. And the soldiers weho survived with injuries they carried for a lifetime.
GOD BLESS AMERICA, LAND THAT I LOVE.
I now understand some things I had not realized before such as the long delay getting the password out, the drifting away from designated landing spots and the incredible bravery of each man who served.
If things had gone smoother, many lives would not have been lost ,but the whole thing seemed to make sense and again, the delay of food and water alone must have been something for our boys to endure.
I love our military and lam so proud of these youngsters that served and the med who led them.
Rudders son was so poignant in telling the story, so sad to hear everybody in the film had now passed. I am 73 and my dad volunteered in WW2 and his last battle was at Okinawa and less than 3 years later my sister and I had been born. I used to look thru my dads big chest of stuff from the war, we played on his cot and tried on the outfits and hats.
God bless every soldier and their families who loved them.
And that included every soldier since that battle. I am so proud of my country and our Military and honor the families who's loved one didn't make it home alive. And the soldiers weho survived with injuries they carried for a lifetime.
GOD BLESS AMERICA, LAND THAT I LOVE.
An accurate account of the D-Day Assault by the US Rangers on the Pointe du Hoc Gun Battery
manxcat-0607110 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This is a superbly accurate account of the Rangers successful attack on the gun battery at the Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, on D-Day. It is the first one I have seen that shows how the guns were tracked down and destroyed by an incredible act of bravery by two Ranger sergeants, which is something that was ignored by book and film "The Longest Day", and many other accounts since then. Other smaller but interesting details include the correct spelling and pronunciation of "Pointe du Hoc", and also "Ben-my-Chree", one of the Manx Steam Packet vessels that carried the LCA craft to the Pointe. I had the great privilege in 2004 to meet Len Lomell in Normandy, one of the sergeants who destroyed the guns, and the following year at his home in the USA, and also Frank South, the medic who sailed on the "Ben-my-Chree" (which incidentally is Manx Gaelic for "Girl of my Heart") and they both recorded their Memories of D-Day from the same home locations that can be seen in the film. Back in 1944, when I was aged four, I had met Len Lomell and two other Rangers sergeants while they were billeted in Bude, Cornwall, where they were training in cliff-climbing. It was not until sixty years later that I found out that the raid had been a success, after years of believing that all they had found were telegraph poles. Even today there are people in the area who are trying to dismiss the attack as a failure for the purpose of promoting their own visitor attraction, so it is a joy to be able to hear the first-hand accounts of the brave Rangers, sadly now all passed away, who scaled the cliffs, and overcoming strong opposition, tracked down and destroyed the guns which were ready to fire, camouflaged in a nearby apple orchard. One of the photos in the film shows a captured gun being examined by General Eisenhower. It was certainly not a telegraph pole. I have walked down that sunken lane with the (then) Mayor of Criqueville, who remembered the day the Rangers liberated his village. He was just eleven years old at the time. We should all be eternally grateful for the bravery and sacrifices of the US Rangers at the Pointe du Hoc, many of whom now lie in the American Military Cemetery, just a few miles from the Pointe. Congratulations to all who made this film. I wish I could thank Tim Gray personally for setting the record right.
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