A Little Different From Saving Private Ryan
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Saving Private Ryan was considered realistic enough in its opening scene depicting the invasion of Normandy that many veterans couldn’t finish watching it. However, even the realism of that scene couldn’t possibly cover the extent of history’s largest amphibious invasion.
After all, the tension in this photo is markedly different from the perilous scrambles from the landing barges depicted in the movie. That’s because these men were reinforcements who weren’t part of that initial scramble.