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Tank Unearthed during the filming of The Longest Day


MHillyard

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Was just reading some trivia on the IMDB about the film The Longest Day. It sates the following:

 

While clearing a section of the Normandy beach near Ponte du Hoc, the film's crew unearthed a tank that had been buried in the sand since the original invasion. Mechanics cleaned it off, fixed it up and it was used in the film as part of the British tank regiment.

 

I also found other small references elsewhere on the internet but nothing more.

 

Does anyone else know any more about it, if it happened at all?

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