65th Anniversary of D-Day Reflected In New Tour Film of The Americans On D-Day Released in March

Howard Monoian and Son Chris in Normandy
Images by Mike Forster.

WW2-Reflections, a division of Labyrinth

Media & Publishing Ltd. of Dublin, Ireland

is looking For a theater in Hollywood and

elsewhere to premiere film free to all

American Legions in USA 

Los Angeles, CA - “I grew up in the early 1950’s, and I have always been fascinated by the second World War,” said Ellwood von Seibold, battlefield guide of Americans on D-Day S, the first battlefield tour film of WW2-Reflections, a division of Labyrinth Media & Publishing Ltd. of Dublin, Ireland. Labyrinth specializes in WW2 battlefield tour DVDs for the U.S. market. "The Americans on D-Day" coincides with the 65th anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy invasion.

“D-Day became a focus point of my interest, and I decided to live a dream and move to France and take people all around these areas,” explained Seibold. “And the producer and director of WW2-Reflections said ‘why don’t we put one of your tours on film in Normandy.”

Seibold noted that WW2-Reflections had assembled a remarkable and accurate collection of soldier’s testimony, stories and witnesses who survived one of America’s most bloody battles in war history. Siebold, donning American and sometimes German uniforms, hops into an early model Army Jeep much like General George Patton rode in as he walks you visually shows and tells you what brave solider endured. 

The film uses smart graphics and extensive use of veterans' recollections, as well as invaluable assistance from Dale Dye, a retired U.S. Marine captain who founded Warriors, Inc. – which specializes in training actors for war-themed film and television productions. Dye was in France preparing for his forthcoming production, "No Better Place to Die." "We are thrilled that he has supported this tour film,"

Producer Richard Lanni said.

On the trailer for the film Dye said, “I am a big fan of Normandy Tour Guide and Historian   Ellwood von Seibold, who takes you for a ride in his 1943 Dodge Command Jeep for the D-Day landings in the real time, you’ll see the uniforms they wore and the weapons they used.”

"We wanted to show a snapshot of that 'Day of Days' through the individual soldier's eye," Lanni said. "Ellwood, who is an incredible 62-year-old, who put on all the different uniforms, allowed he to be suspended on a rope ladder over a cliff, ran out of the freezing water on Omaha Beach at 6.30 a.m., crawled through hedgerows and shinned up trees."

The production shot its first interviews in 2007 with Howard Manoian, a veteran of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne who landed in Normandy on D-Day and returned many years later to live in the country that he helped liberate.

"With the addition of archive footage and stills we have turned this interview into a short biographical documentary under the title of 'A Soldier's Journey,' which we also hope to launch for the 65th anniversary, " Lanni said.

(Clips available at ww2-reflections.com) (EPK at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJIjD-MaRJw&feature=channel_page)

Manoian was recently named a recipient of the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French government. He will be presented with the award in June at St. Mere Eglise, where U.S. paratroopers suffered heavy losses during the Normandy invasion.

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