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The opening scene takes place in present day when an older Veteran and his family is strolling through the American Cemetery at Collieville sur Mur. Then the scene flashes back to the war when the 29th Infantry Division and the Rangers are making an amphibious landing on the coast of Normandy during the D-Day invasionon 6 June 1944. "Saving Private Ryan" is a fictional story that is partially (and remotely) based upon an event where a paratrooper was ordered to be sent back home because of a death of either his brother or his Mother.

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