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Just a great clip, from a great movie, the likes of which, we will not see again. I would urge everybody to watch A Bridge too Far. The parachute drops were filmed with actual planes and parachutists, with the cameras jumping too. No CGI involved. No bodybuilders running across the battlefield firing a heavy machine gun single handed of the hip. No guns with 600 round magazines… Very few explosions…
This particular incident actually happened. John Frost was a technical advisor during shooting, and made sure that the scenes around the bridge were as true to the actual events as possible.
Spent a weekend at Arnhem area around 2005 ish.
Visited the Hertenstein hotel at Oosterbeek which was the British HQ., the cemeteries (on the site of the Polish drop zone if I remember rightly,) and the Nijmegen Bridge.abd the residential area where a lot of the fighting took place that you see on the old news clips,.with the British Paras.
Worth a visit if anybody is interested in all that type of stuff.
When I was a kid in the 70s I worked in a factory this guy always walked past doing a really strange walk.
One of the young apprentice lads took the ■■■■ and was then grabbed by the throat by one of the other older guys…telling him
‘Dont take the ■■■■ out of that man son,.you are only here because of the likes of him,.■■■■ apologise to him now’'…he did btw.
Turned out he was ex Para shot at coming down in his parachute at Arnhem and had a bad landing,.resulting in his legs being ■■■■ ed up.
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At comprehensive school in the 1970s I had a Religious Studies teacher called Harry Bankhead , what a man , he was a brilliant . He used to put Loony Tunes cartoons on for us to watch , he was always happy and joking . Only years later I saw him on TV , a programme about Arnham , he was talking with another PARA about the onslaught from heavy German fire when they were pinned down and losing the battle for the bridge . No wonder he was so cheerful , he’d seen enough bloodshed to last a lifetime to be angry with anyone . What a hero …I only wish I knew at the time to tell him so .
My grandad was at Monte casino , part of the Canadian army he never talked about and I was 32 when he died
I like the 50’s and 60’s war films as a lot of the extras , advisers and even lead actors had served in the Second World War , so it wasn’t glorified or played up .
One of the best I’ve watched is “Carve her name with pride “ the lead doesn’t get her man, or even lives but it’s very sobering that a mother with a child would leave her daughter in the relative safety of Britain to go back to France and be a SOE operative know that if caught the Gestapo would most probably kill her
youtu.be/FfsFzf_gMss?si=7OduVRhd8ZDBr0Q0
My Grandad was in that battle. He was second drop that never made it to Arnhem and had to fight there way out of Oosterbeek. Was very lucky to make it out alive.
Yeh I know,.different bridge, different battle,.different country.
But still interesting if you are into this stuff…and they also made a movie about it.
youtu.be/tdy1IAJvCNM?si=GRjLy8QozlplNBrU