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I own the complete set of Band of Brothers, but viewing it on Memorial Day is humbling. Wow. How did these guys do what they did? Today, it is being shown on AMC.

Voldemort wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:26 pm I own the complete set of Band of Brothers, but viewing it on Memorial Day is humbling. Wow. How did these guys do what they did? Today, it is being shown on AMC.

The Pacific is great too. What those Marines, Army & Navy went through on Guadalcanal, Peliliu, Iwo, Oki, etc., what a wretched duty.

This show was based primarily upon memoirs by Sledge and Leckie :

https://www.coffeeordie.com/article/fou ... he-pacific

We owe those folks a lot.

MikoTython wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:46 pm

Voldemort wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:26 pm I own the complete set of Band of Brothers, but viewing it on Memorial Day is humbling. Wow. How did these guys do what they did? Today, it is being shown on AMC.

The Pacific is great too. What those Marines, Army & Navy went through on Guadalcanal, Peliliu, Iwo, Oki, etc., what a wretched duty.

This show was based primarily upon memoirs by Sledge and Leckie :

https://www.coffeeordie.com/article/fou ... he-pacific

We owe those folks a lot.

I own that series as well. Yes, it is excellent and humbling as well.

MikoTython wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:46 pm

Voldemort wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:26 pm I own the complete set of Band of Brothers, but viewing it on Memorial Day is humbling. Wow. How did these guys do what they did? Today, it is being shown on AMC.

The Pacific is great too. What those Marines, Army & Navy went through on Guadalcanal, Peliliu, Iwo, Oki, etc., what a wretched duty.

This show was based primarily upon memoirs by Sledge and Leckie :

https://www.coffeeordie.com/article/fou ... he-pacific

We owe those folks a lot.

I watched Band of Brothers not that long ago—certainly within the last two years. I watched The Pacific when it came out. I think the production value of the Pacific is superior to Band of Brothers. I’ll often rewatch an episode or two from the Pacific and it’s always fantastic.

It’s almost as if the technology advanced and societies social mores shifted between the making of one and the other.

Bighorn66 wrote: ↑28 May 2025 18:25 pm

MikoTython wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:46 pm

Voldemort wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:26 pm I own the complete set of Band of Brothers, but viewing it on Memorial Day is humbling. Wow. How did these guys do what they did? Today, it is being shown on AMC.

The Pacific is great too. What those Marines, Army & Navy went through on Guadalcanal, Peliliu, Iwo, Oki, etc., what a wretched duty.

This show was based primarily upon memoirs by Sledge and Leckie :

https://www.coffeeordie.com/article/fou ... he-pacific

We owe those folks a lot.

I watched Band of Brothers not that long ago—certainly within the last two years. I watched The Pacific when it came out. I think the production value of the Pacific is superior to Band of Brothers. I’ll often rewatch an episode or two from the Pacific and it’s always fantastic.

It’s almost as if the technology advanced and societies social mores shifted between the making of one and the other.

For whatever reason, the relentlessness of the island campaigns really comes thru. The only aspect of BoB to compare w/ it, beyond D-Day, was the siege at Bastogne & the Ardennes, during the counter-offensive - which was, aside from the slaughter at Anzio/Casino for the Allies afaik, the biggest meat-chopper. Never mind what the Red Army went thru, all the way to Berlin.

MikoTython wrote: ↑28 May 2025 20:58 pm

Bighorn66 wrote: ↑28 May 2025 18:25 pm

MikoTython wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:46 pm

Voldemort wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:26 pm I own the complete set of Band of Brothers, but viewing it on Memorial Day is humbling. Wow. How did these guys do what they did? Today, it is being shown on AMC.

The Pacific is great too. What those Marines, Army & Navy went through on Guadalcanal, Peliliu, Iwo, Oki, etc., what a wretched duty.

This show was based primarily upon memoirs by Sledge and Leckie :

https://www.coffeeordie.com/article/fou ... he-pacific

We owe those folks a lot.

I watched Band of Brothers not that long ago—certainly within the last two years. I watched The Pacific when it came out. I think the production value of the Pacific is superior to Band of Brothers. I’ll often rewatch an episode or two from the Pacific and it’s always fantastic.

It’s almost as if the technology advanced and societies social mores shifted between the making of one and the other.

For whatever reason, the relentlessness of the island campaigns really comes thru. The only aspect of BoB to compare w/ it, beyond D-Day, was the siege at Bastogne & the Ardennes, during the counter-offensive - which was, aside from the slaughter at Anzio/Casino for the Allies afaik, the biggest meat-chopper. Never mind what the Red Army went thru, all the way to Berlin.

You really feel the relentlessness as it’s island campaign as it is island after island after island and each step gets harder and harder and worse and worse. And as you’re watching it, you know the human condition cannot take more.

It would have been like repetitive sieges of Bastogne.

The other part that is shocking in the Pacific is when they were abandoned by the US Navy. They are stranded there without an apparent way out. A bit of a shock for the aid viewer.

Bighorn66 wrote: ↑28 May 2025 22:28 pm

MikoTython wrote: ↑28 May 2025 20:58 pm

Bighorn66 wrote: ↑28 May 2025 18:25 pm

MikoTython wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:46 pm

Voldemort wrote: ↑26 May 2025 19:26 pm I own the complete set of Band of Brothers, but viewing it on Memorial Day is humbling. Wow. How did these guys do what they did? Today, it is being shown on AMC.

The Pacific is great too. What those Marines, Army & Navy went through on Guadalcanal, Peliliu, Iwo, Oki, etc., what a wretched duty.

This show was based primarily upon memoirs by Sledge and Leckie :

https://www.coffeeordie.com/article/fou ... he-pacific

We owe those folks a lot.

I watched Band of Brothers not that long ago—certainly within the last two years. I watched The Pacific when it came out. I think the production value of the Pacific is superior to Band of Brothers. I’ll often rewatch an episode or two from the Pacific and it’s always fantastic.

It’s almost as if the technology advanced and societies social mores shifted between the making of one and the other.

For whatever reason, the relentlessness of the island campaigns really comes thru. The only aspect of BoB to compare w/ it, beyond D-Day, was the siege at Bastogne & the Ardennes, during the counter-offensive - which was, aside from the slaughter at Anzio/Casino for the Allies afaik, the biggest meat-chopper. Never mind what the Red Army went thru, all the way to Berlin.

You really feel the relentlessness as it’s island campaign as it is island after island after island and each step gets harder and harder and worse and worse. And as you’re watching it, you know the human condition cannot take more.

It would have been like repetitive sieges of Bastogne.

The other part that is shocking in the Pacific is when they were abandoned by the US Navy. They are stranded there without an apparent way out. A bit of a shock for the aid viewer.

Absolutely, can you imagine surviving one of those, getting on a boat, and heading for another ?? At Guadalcanal, the Navy got slaughtered, beat feat.

The other aspect of the war that needs to be fully appreciated is the staggering losses faced by the bomber crews. Mortality rate of >70 %. They had to get back in those planes every couple of days. They broke the back of the Wehrmacht, on the supply side.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2640044

There is an interesting site where a guy explores the events of Easy Company, deals with many of the discrepancies & mischaracterizations left by Ambrose & Winters - they weren't totally reliable narrators :

https://www.youtube.com/@bandofbrothers-tv