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Agree 29 if your watching the show and you think your watching actual footage from that battle you'd be wrong a great deal. I like it because of the real life accounts how it follows each person. Colmbarry may know something different then I do but I know of no WW2 vets in my family that talked about it. My Grandpa was 16 when he went in Navy he went to the Pacific. I can only remember a very few times when he mentioned anything about it perhaps after a few to many "Pabst".
I heard an army colonel say the other day that the armed services would reject 75% of all available men between 18-35 years of age today. Let me re-state: 75% of available men in the U.S. either have drug, alcohol, weight, intelligence or crime rpoblems that would make them inelligible to serve in our country's armed forces. And the army, air force, navy or marines doesn't want to be a baby sitter. Sad and pathetic.
The Marines take fatties... you go to pork platoon for a few months and shed that weight wearing a double striped shirt to ID you as a fat-body, and you get half rations. then pick up with an actual training platoon (bootcamp is far more than just running your arse off) once you're in the right physical shape
Kinda a student of history. I have been watching the show. The errors are frequent.
18,000 bombers took part in Operation Cobra---- not likely, 1800 more likely
Jap tanks at the battle of Bloody Ridge--- no account I have ever read has made that claim
Equipment errors, film being shown reported to be one battle, is actually film from a battle later in the war, some of the film is generic, I have seen it many times either in Victory at Sea, or other WW2 programs
Some great footage in this series. I guess the title is a little bit deceiving in that the film is not in HD, but it does look better than the old footage that i remember. Truly amazing to recall the intensity of that war and then realize that the three main antagonists are now some of our closest friends. Maybe we need to kick the crap out of more countries to make them our friends?
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I missed this whole thing! Is it a new series or just a special that History Channel did? I hope it is available on OnDemand. My dad and brother were talking about it tonight.
The scene with the hundreds of rotting japanese corpses with maggots coming out of their eyes, nose, and mouth strewn everywhere along the waterline was very disturbing.
Thats war. An enemy is just that, an enemy, no more no less. If we were fighting this thing were in now they call a war like we fought that one, no problem. We've become a country of little cry babies, don't want to hurt anybodies feeling around the world. I could care less what the rest of the world thinks about us. What goes on in their heads is none of my business.
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Finally showing some of the true horrors of war...actual dead people, burnt, shot, arms/legs missing...blood soaked ground...remember, we didn't declare war until we were attacked...still the greatest generation
Phenomenal series. I am a huge WWII buff and this series is great. If you have not been, go to the WWII Museum in New Orleans. I have been three times and will go back soon to see thee new exhibit.
Watching and reading about what those guys went thru reminds me how good we have it. I am forever greatful.
I give an elderly WWII vet who hitchikes a ride into town whenever I see him. He went through that Jap death march to battan or wherever and has told of a few of the things the Japs did to them. Absolutely horrible and inhumane stuff you would not wish on your enemy. I was not offended by the pictures of the rotting Jap corpses.
I give an elderly WWII vet who hitchikes a ride into town whenever I see him. He went through that Jap death march to battan or wherever and has told of a few of the things the Japs did to them. Absolutely horrible and inhumane stuff you would not wish on your enemy. I was not offended by the pictures of the rotting Jap corpses.
A friend of mines father was in Bataan and a POW for 46 months. I have heard several of the stories around the campfire from him and some of his commrades. Unbelievable what they were able to survive!
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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victim may be the most oppressive." ~ C.S.Lewis
I'm not sure I'd label everybody from that generation as "the greatest generation". Certainly the men that fought in the sevrices are the greatest generation. But many in that generation saw our guys die to preserve freedom, yet many are willing to sell their soul for a govt freebie.
as a followup, my girl friend's dad (whose is 87 now) was a fighter pilot for the Canadian air force during WWII. He was an ace, shot down over Germany, became a prisoner for 4 mos at the end of the war, and released by Patton's men. A true hero, yet I never understand why he was so against Bush and consistently votes Democrat. I'll never understand it.
