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A very happy birthday to Thomas. Does he know about cake yet?

Couple of D-Day questions I know Alan can answer:

- Is "Lafayette, we are here" from that day or from the other war? It's perfect for D-Day but it's a WWI line, isn't it?

- Is "A Foreign Field" the good TV drama in which a very elderly Alec Guinness plays a disabled American veteran returning with his Army buddy and lifelong employer to a D-Day event in Normandy? Think so -- that title & a description mentioning Guinness is in this list of D-Day movies.

Is "Lafayette, we are here" from that day or from the other war? It's perfect for D-Day but it's a WWI line, isn't it?

Yes - the era of the Lafayette Escadrille, etc.

Is "A Foreign Field" the good TV drama in which a very elderly Alec Guinness plays a disabled American veteran returning with his Army buddy and lifelong employer to a D-Day event in Normandy?

Yes.

Happy birthday to Thomas, now I realise why Alan thinks there's more to life than participation in abgo.

If the TV drama was the one with Leon McKern and Lauren Bacall then Alec Guinness played a disabled BRITISH veteran returning to Normandy to visit the grave of a fallen comrade.

Paul Stables

Come to think of it, you're right. The one man owns a furniture store in England and the Guinness character works for him. Furniture store owner is genially abusive to Guinness character but under the bluster turns out to have taken care him for fifty years in gratitude for the Guinness character saving his life at the price of a disabling injury on D-Day. That's the story, isn't it?

Waitaminnit -- Laren Bacall? Who did she play? I asked J. and neither of us can remember her in it.

I've just been through the June 1944 items of the Orwell Complete Works and can't find a thing about D-Day. Pity.

Happy birthday to Thomas again,

/M