Producer/Director Richard Lanni, of The Americans on D-Day will be a featured guest live 7:30 a.m., on WWL-TV, Eyewitness News, Friday, April 10, 2009, New Orleans. The morning news show airs 6:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Lanni is meeting with military dignitaries, museum officials and veterans of World War II. Lanni is researching Louisiana, for future interviews with veterans from WWII and plans to interview historians, museum officials in a series of films on Normandy.
“It’s been 65 years since the end of World War II and remnants of Louisiana's Prisoner of War Camp remain amongst the 175 Branch Camps that was serving 511 Area Camps containing more than 425,000 prisoners of war,” said Producer Director Richard Lanni, WW2 Reflections, Dublin, Ireland, who arrives in New Orleans this week. “We have film interviews with surviving veterans of Normandy that will be showcased in Hollywood later this month to relive those days. I am here to meet more veterans and visit museums so our films will be accurate.”
Lanni has just completed his first of a series of battle tour films entitled, www.theamericansondday.com/
"2,000 D-Day Soldiers are dying at an alarming rate each month," Producer Richard Lanni told WOR AM News Talk Radio Host Joey Reynolds, New York, Lanni, WOR's Historian Albert Wunsch, and Producer Myra Chanin discussed the making of the film, which is a first of a series on this 65th Anniversary year of D-Day in Normandy.
WW2-Reflections’
“We are thrilled to have the chance to recognize American Heroes of D-Day this year, on the 65th Anniversary of Normandy, and what better place to do it than at the historical American Legion Post 43 building," said Lanni, WW2-Reflections.
"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, the first battlefield tour film of WW2-Reflections, a division of Labyrinth Media & Publishing Ltd. of Dublin, Ireland. For the full story and trailer visit: http://tinyurl.com/
