16 military movies that used real-life veterans in active roles

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Still from Flags of our Fathers (Image via Warner Bros. Entertainment)
Still from Flags of our Fathers (Image via Warner Bros. Entertainment)

11.⁠ ⁠The Longest Day (1962)

Still from the movie (Image via Rotten Tomatoes)
Still from the movie (Image via Rotten Tomatoes)

Based on the non-fiction book by Cornelius Ryan, this historical war drama has an ensemble cast of John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and others. Set around the D-Day landing in Normandy during World War II. The film had several D-Day participants as consultants and one of the cast members, Richard Todd, was a real-life paratrooper who portrayed Major John Howard in the movie.

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