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Hello, my GGrandfater V.V.Crouch was in Verdun in WWII part of a Railroad Battalion. There was an incident where 60 glider pilots showed up and needed to get back to get more gliders. This was problematic due to sabotage of tracks, equipment and communication. Supply drops not getting through until a night glider mission was put together. Parts flow in. Train assembled, track cleared. Locomotive was fired and dawn and they got through without any authorization from HQ. Has anyone heard this? Can anyone add to this? I do have some documents, photos that confirm some of this.

分からないのは　関ヶ原でなぜ?　毛利勢は派兵しなかったのか　勝てる局面を目の前で逆転を許すなんのメリットがあったのですか?　分からなすぎる💀💀💀

Title is wrong

‘Anyone can make a mistake sir’ so British.

Richard Todd, who took part in the action at the bridge at Benouville (later renamed Pegasus Bridge), was offered the chance to play himself, but joked, "I don't think at this stage of my acting career I could accept a part 'that' small." He was cast as the commander of the bridge assault, Major John Howard, instead. In a strange twist of fate, in one scene of the battle for the bridge, a soldier runs up to Todd, playing Major Howard, and relays information about the battle to him. During the actual real battle, Todd actually did run up to Howard to relay information to him. Therefore, the film actually did show a soldier playing Todd running up to Todd playing Howard and relaying information the real Todd gave to the real Howard.

This was the action called Pegasus bridge. They pulled off the captire of the capture of the bridge with minimum casualties. I believe only one fatality. This movie shows several casuaties.

Stayed in campsite 300 meters away from the bridge a couple of years ago,can't imagine what these lads went through

Watching at 2316 hours UK time 89 years after they landed eactly with a tott of navy rrum. Hoofing effort

兼続の息子(仲野太賀:当時は太賀)役は、2年後には豊臣秀頼を演じてるんですよね。 ※淀役は宮沢りえ

天地人の長谷堂城で慶次が出ないのはなんか、、、うん、

Surely this is my favorite scene from the movie

If one is to believe the Producers and Scriptwriters of "The Longest Day", this was virtually the only British contribution to D Day. Thank goodness we had all those Americans and Free (sic) French to do all the fighting.

This is an incredible scene... Richard Todd actually participated in this action...his commander... major John Howard... 😮

Can't believe it's 2024 and the Americans haven't made a film yet where they took this bridge.

結局徳川になびいて 死を恐れたな❤

This is just a clip taken from the movie "The Longest Day"!!!

今より合戦シーン迫力あるやん。なんで？

てか、このドラマの映像の一部、葵徳川三代の使いまわしでは？ｗ

It’s amazing that Richard Todd got to play the commander of a raid he was actually apart of in WW2

Fun fact: There was an Australian prime insider who shared the name as John Howard 😂

What about the pilots, did they also praticipate in the fight?

This wasn’t at Ouistreham…

Gentlemen... Don't forget to hold until relieved

richard todd?? possibly the only actor who actualy, played action, a part in his real life

Link arms and put up your feet?! Holy Sh*T

The German "garrison" at the bridge was four men stationed in the Cafe Gondree. There was a larger platoon sized group not far from the bridge, but they didn't react until well after Howard and his men had seized the bridge. There was a brief firefight, in which Den Brotheridge, Howard's second in command, was killed. He was arguably the first Allied casualty on D-Day.

My father dropped Para's and towed gliders on D-Day

Having been to Pegasus Bridge and seen how close the glider landed to the bridge and that if the machine gun post only a few yards away had been manned it would have been a very different outcome. (Why that machine gun post was not manned is I suspect something we will never know. (Personally with the café Gondré the other side of the bridge being close to being a Resistance HQ I have to ponder if that was not the reason for the unmanned machine gun post.)

Actor Richard Todd of the scene was a real British airborne soldier and jumped during D DAY.

Queseacastellano

Hold, until relieved. Hold, until relieved. Hold, until relieved.

Is it not bridge at Orne?

What song do they sing?

Uncle buck's?🙄 Jman

天地人、初めの方は面白かったんだけどな

Todd was there for real

Hoorah the ox and bucks cet et audaux

Any time you're Lambeth way, Any evening, any day, You'll find them all Doing the Lambeth Walk...oi!

My grandfather told me a story of crash landing in a glider, the infantry/ranger officers were killed, he being an NCO suddenly found himself in charge of the survivors when the LT pilots said nope we only fly.

03:24 Lol, MOHAA Sten sound :D (Or MOHAA had TLD's Sten sound)

My God! to think he really did all that in real life, upon reading about his exploits it's a bloody miracle he survived the war he had several near misses, and to think he lived to ninety wonderfully brave man.

richard todd was in fact in the paratroop force that reinforced the bridge.as howard he meets the extra who is playing him! todd quipped im the only actor ever to relieve myself onscreen! oddly todd due to his name was nicknamed sweeney! there was an officer in howards group called sweeney who was therefore nicknamed todd! it caused considerable humour and misunderstanding during the following days as both answered the call todd or sweeney whenever it was barked! he and sweeney became great friends and the guy appeared on todds this is your life with howard!

Brve young men rip lt Denholm brtheridge

Up the action Bux! Up the action Bux!

Love the scene at :52 . He is a paratrooper, thus his courage is without question, but at that moment, his hands aren't as courageous as the rest of him. His mate doesn't give him a hard time, he just helps get his helmet secured, so they can get on with it. Great scene about the camaraderie of war.

The glider pilot landed about 10 metres from the bridge I've heard it called one of the greatest aeronautical feats of the war.

The amount of stiff upper lip in this should have been enough to hold the bridge up if the Germans tried to blow it

ha ha - yah - up the ox and bucks - up the ox and bucks - the nick name of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - that's who they were I hate in Hollywood movies how everyone bunches together like this - it's so everyone can get in the camera frame - no one would do that in real life - you have to stay spread out - or you die -

天地人を見てたのが保育園児のころだから10年もまえに見てたのかぁ

"Hold until relieved, hold until relieved..."