Apart from what the men were doing on the day, Masters of the Air's depiction of D-Day is quite different from Saving Private Ryan. First and foremost, the invasion of Normandy is one of the ...

From its legendary D-Day opening sequence to the smaller, intimate moments that Spielberg captures deep in the trenches, Saving Private Ryan is both ... of the Allied invasion of German-occupied ...

John McManus, a World War II historian, looks at war scenes from "Saving Private Ryan" and ... Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day. He discusses the realism ...