D-DAY IN WEXFORD.(battle scene in 'Saving Private Ryan' filmed in Ireland)
World of Hibernia, September, 1998 by Farley, Thomas P.
The D-Day landing at Omaha Beach in the film 'Saving Private Ryan' was actually filmed at Curracloe Beach in County Wexford, Ireland. Curracloe was chosen for its uncanny resemblance to Omaha Beach. A lobbying campaign to promote Ireland as a film and TV location was also a factor in the choice.
Braving a barrage of machine-gun fire from a bunker above them, nearly 1,000 soldiers from the Irish army stormed Curracloe Beach in County Wexford last summer, attempting a frontal assault to regain a Nazi-held beachhead. There was heavy bloodshed as the unprotected Irish soldiers dropped like pins in a sadistic carnival game. Everywhere on the 10-acre beach the air was thick with bullets as the Germans rained down rapid machine-gun fire upon the expeditionary force. Battling...
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