D-Day the Sixth of June

A parachutist during World War II, Richard Todd took part in the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. He later played his former commanding officer Major John Howard in The Longest Day (1962), another dramatisation of the Normandy landings.

When the U.S. soldiers are mocking a Home Guard unit drilling nearby, they say things like "they haven't even got uniforms." This would appear to be the case as you can see them wearing only LDV (Local Defense Volunteers) armbands on top of their "civvies." This was the case when the force was first formed early in the war (1940) well before the U.S. entered the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941. But by the time the GIs arrived in Britain in 1942, all units of the Home Guard were fully equipped with uniforms, weapons etc.

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