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The Pacific. 6060 Responses
Last post: 3 years ago | Thread started: Mar 16, 10, 5:59 a.m.
- zenmasterfoo
loved it. I can't wait to buy the box set.
- Dog-earMar 16, 10, 6:10 a.m. – Permalink
- Ramanisky2
^^ the plot structure is different .. you have 3 main characters and their stories
- Dog-earMar 16, 10, 7:07 a.m. – Permalink
- mg33
I don't have HBO. :( Will wait for the box set.
My grandfather earned a Purple Heart in the 3rd Marine Division at Iwo Jima; he also fought at Guam and Bouganville. Pacific history is very interesting to me, so I cannot wait to see this show once it's out on DVD.
- Dog-earMar 16, 10, 7:08 a.m. – Permalink
- fyoucher1
It's exactly like Band Of Brothers (which is beyond awesome btw) and even has some of the same actors and same title treatments. The first episode was good but I honestly expected more, maybe it's because I just wanted more. Can't wait for the second though.
If you liked Saving Private Ryan, you'll probably like this show. Tom Hanks even does VO (maybe even is a part of the production???)
- Dog-earMar 16, 10, 9:30 a.m. – Permalink
- subcommandante
@mg33 "My grandfather earned a Purple Heart in the 3rd Marine Division at Iwo Jima..."
Wow. My uncle was in the same division at Iwo Jima...weird.
- Dog-earMar 16, 10, 10:37 a.m. – Permalink
- fooler2
My grandfather was on the USS Tennessee as a Turret Capt. when it was hit in Pearl harbor. He's 94 and still alive, living by himself in California.
Last year my sisters interviewed him on camera about all his war stories and edited it with some news footage from back then and gave everyone in our family a DVD copy of it.
He doesn't really like talking about it but we convinced him to do it.He's a pretty modest man and hates the fact that the few survivors get together each year. "Why the hell would I want to remember that day, fact is most these men where hiding and crying somewhere while others laid dying" he says.
- Dog-earMar 16, 10, 10:49 a.m. – Permalink
- JazX
That show could get quite brutal if they wanted to show it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap…- Dog-earMar 16, 10, 10:58 a.m. – Permalink
- ghandolf
My father flew B-17's in WWII but was in the European theater. He's passed away now, but it's true. None of these guys liked to talk about their roles in the war. He told me anecdotes, but no real 'meaty' stories. What he did tell me however, was extremely interesting. He flew 13 missions before the war ended, was shot down behind enemy lines and escaped twice, and liberated a concentration camp, flying survivors back to England at the end of the war.
Rest in peace Dad
- Dog-earMar 16, 10, 10:58 a.m. – Permalink
- fooler2
I never met my wives grandfather but he was shot down in a B17 too.
The military sent a letter to his wife (whom is still living to this day) telling her that his plane was missing and all were presumed dead.
He was the guy in the bottom ball turret and when they made their crash landing was still in it. After a few weeks or months she received another letter saying he survived but was seriously injured. He made a full recovery and the only thing you could tell he was in a plane crash was he was missing part of an ear.- Dog-earMar 16, 10, 11:05 a.m. – Permalink
