The Longest Day/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* A team of engineers - led by Jeffrey Hunter - under constant fire rig up explosives to blow a hole into the Omaha Beach barrier. {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice|They all die in the attempt but Hunter lives long enough to detonate the explosives]], opening a big enough gap for the Americans to charge in and win the day.}}

* Luftwaffe Colonel Josef Priller. With his entire air wing having been moved back the day before to airfields out of range of the beaches, the only two German fighter aircraft available on D-Day were his own and his wingman's, Sergeant Heinz Wodarczyk. And so the two of them flew out -- by themselves -- to do an air attack on ''the entire Allied invasion''. The two FW-190s strafed Sword, Juno, and Omaha beaches, while flying through the combined antiaircraft fire of every ship in the invasion fleet, until they ran out of ammo and returned to base unharmed. The comment of one of the British sailors witnessing this;

** ''"The Luftwaffe has had its finest moment!"''

** Though not portrayed in the film, they were also both badly hungover at the time.