You can make a good case for saying D Day was Britain last day as a superpower. Despite the Saving Private Ryan rendering of it, D Day was largely a British/Commonwealth operation, with the vast majority of the ships and the landing craft being British and Canadian. The scale of the naval side was extraordinary, the RN providing nearly 900 out of 1,200 vessels, and 3,000 out 4,000 landing craft.
It’s pretty poor that film didn’t have a single British/Commonwealth person or vehicle clearly in it, despite it being a great film.
It’s not a time to be annoyed at trivial things like that though, it’s a time to remember those actually there and say thank you.
Could be worse, could be U-571 ;-)
I’ve never seen it, what happens?
U-571: You give historical films a bad name...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/25/u-571-reel-history
The last bit of that is slightly unfair - the note at the end about it being the RN who had done it was put in precisely because of the reaction to it, rather than to re-inforce some kind of insult. To be fair to the film, the historical inaccuracy in that sense was no more barking mad than showing a random German destroyer in the middle of the Atlantic, presumably with limitless fuel.
If memory serves the director publicly apologised for, well, all of it basically.
U-571: You give historical films a bad name...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/25/u-571-reel-history
Can't remember whether it was the producer, writer - but someone behind it did yes, and it seemed pretty genuine. Real veterans had a right to be outraged, but the rest of us the reaction should just be more a roll of the eyes and a shake of the head. It's a terrible, terrible film irrespective of the historical angle. Besides, as a result of it, probably more people learned about what the HMS Bulldog crew did.