92 - D-Day: Omaha
The WW2 Podcast
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Saving Private Ryan: The Opening Sequence
"It must have been hugely confusing I mean physically there are a pretty low-ed their body resistance would have been way down that as we know has a psychological effect" "When you see people who you've trained with for years suddenly missing their heads and arms and being chopped pieces by by shrapnel and heavy machine gun bullets the shocking impact of that will distract them from the task in hand how much beach did they have to cross? He had to cross the equivalent of a couple of football bitches to get up the beach so it's quite with. There'll be no really oh yeah completely open there's no cover whatsoever for them to get to," he says.
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