When the US 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 Defence 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 US entered the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour 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.
What a surprise !
Viewers who want an all out action war movie with guns blazing and corpse strewn landscapes should avoid D-Day the Sixth of June. Released in 1956, the film looks back somewhat nostalgically at a war that was already beginning to fade into history.
The first 90 minutes are romantic soap. Boys meet girl.
This would have been a mediocre film. The D-Day action is short and at the very end.
For many years, I avoided watching "D-Day the Sixth of June" because I assumed it was a film about the D-Day invasion. I was shocked to learn that it really was NOT about D-Day...
...and that's just Robert Taylor.
It's rather strange watching D DAY THE SIXTH OF JUNE in 2005 because what strikes you is that it's a war movie made with a female audience in mind . Maybe it wasn't so strange at the time because a large proportion of the female population in Britain at the time could probably relate to having both a British boyfriend and an American lover on the go at the same time , but still the thought of a war movie marketed towards women seems somewhat bizarre since it's a genre most females seem to dislike .
In my opinion the movie has some strong acting and is good entertainment. The casting was successful as the characters worked well with each other.
When I went to see this film at the now long gone Focus cinema in Longton, Stoke on Trent on Thursday, September 12th, 1957, it marked the first time that I, then aged 10 and a half, had gone to the pictures on my own. The film was an eternal triangle love story set against a background of the preparations for the Normandy landings in June, 1944, which, when this film was released, had happened only twelve years earlier.
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