Reflections on D-Day, and how it is portrayed

I've spent the evening watching the various D-Day tributes, and one thing that has struck me is how similar they all are. I mean, they all have the meteorologist saying something about not guessing about the weather on the 6th of June, as he would then no longer be a scientist. The same soldiers telling the same stories...Mr. Slaughter telling about how he watched a soldier get shot by a sniper, call for a medic, and how the sniper then also shot the medic. The German machine gunner who was freaked out at the carnage he was wreaking. Rommel sure that the Allies would only attack at high tide, and thus had time to go to Berlin and both beseech Hitler for more support, and celebrate his wife's 50th birthday. The all talk about the brave paratroopers, but don't mention how many of them downed in the flooded fields, which one of the documentries did mention, but said that they were to flood the beaches...which is bogus...as we know they put polls in the ground to attempt to leathally damage landing planes and gliders. The water filled fields were a defence against paratroopers.

Were they all based upon the same book? And if so, what is that book?

Why were so many things left out? Or wrong? And some things just smell fishy. Like Rommel leaving at exactly the right time so that he could not command the defenses during the invasion. It makes me wonder what secrets that still have not come out about WWII? How sanitised are our documentries are? And how much that is important is not being talked about?

And why so little mention of the Canadians? They were responsable for 1/5th of the battle. Sure, being US TV, they would spend most of the time on the US contribution to the landings, but they also spent a good portion on the British...but virtually nothing on the Canadians.

More questions than answers...

ttyl