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Victory at Sea - Target Suribachi
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| 1952
| NBC
Posted on 07/02/2013 10:04:49 PM PDT by GodfearingTexan
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NBC today would focus exclusively on alleged war crimes committed by the Americans.
To: GodfearingTexan; USS Johnston
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:11:16 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: GodfearingTexan
Wow! I remember this film. It was one of the most extensive documentaries made about WWII. It was a wonderful tribute to the men and women who sacrificed it all in this epic struggle. We grew up on films like this and it influenced us very much.
Today, it would be labeled “propaganda”.
The narrative has been twisted around to the point that the Japanese and Germans became victims to a growing US military Industrial complex.
Any student of history knows the truth about WWII - the question is, do young people read any more?
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:14:15 PM PDT
by
Netz
To: GodfearingTexan
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:24:50 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: GodfearingTexan
I have the 3 CD set. Great series.
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:25:54 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
To: GodfearingTexan
I have this entire series on dvd at my gun shop... When I get a bunch of youngsters in there that express any interest in history, I put one of the dvd’s in an let them see history in black and white. It is a new experience for them. The hardest one for me to watch is the episode on the submarine warfare in the south Pacific... I actually get to see my dad in action as a young man. I sure miss him - but at least I get to see him, even if only for a moment, and even if only in black and white. I’m still proud to call him dad, and my hero. And I miss him terribly...
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:29:10 PM PDT
by
Raven6
(Psalm 144:1 and Proverbs 22:3)
To: laplata
Dad had the vinyl...I have the itunes files...great show....
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:30:18 PM PDT
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(It is going to be Foot to Ass combat on election day....my foot and a Rat's ass.)
To: GodfearingTexan
Remember watching “Victory at Sea” as a kid, WDSU TV channel 6, think that was the only channel available at that time............Dang I’m old.
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:35:50 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
To: GodfearingTexan
During my Naval career we’d freqently show episodes of Victory At Sea as traing films.
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:39:45 PM PDT
by
GMMC0987
To: GodfearingTexan
Scored the entire 26 episodes in a box set from a garage sale for $5.00.They were brand new never opened.Brilliant series.
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:41:16 PM PDT
by
mitch5501
("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:41:38 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
To: mitch5501
Yeah, they were brilliant. Just imagine what it would cost today to put that together.
Not that Hollyweird would do it of course. Much different people in the film business back then, like Reagen, Wayne, Stewart, Murphy, and all the others that believed in the military.
To: GodfearingTexan
I have them all. My father loved the series. He would never miss an episode. He served on Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Cape Gloucester and Peleliu. Richard Rodgers and the NBC Orchestra were fabulous.
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posted on
07/02/2013 10:51:09 PM PDT
by
Wiggins
To: doorgunner69
The sad thing was they were unwanted junk for the folks I bought them from.They are riveting viewing and quite brutal in some scenes.I haven't seen war up close but I try to be as aquainted with it as I can be.The paralells today are disturbing...if only the general populace today paralleled as well but it doesn't.
When I say "God bless America" I mean it.I fear for your country right now and my own Australia.
please God..bless America!
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posted on
07/02/2013 11:01:50 PM PDT
by
mitch5501
("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
To: mitch5501
Ye, God bless Australia.
Your guys have stuck with us through a helluva lot. Never met any of them during my time in RVN, but we all knew they were down south of us in I Corps and appreciated it.
I am sure the guys in the sandboxes feel the same these days. Your beer still is still as good as it gets..........
To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
My Dad has the vinyl as well. I recall fondly whien my brother and I were kids, that record was one of a couple in regular rotation as being blasted on the Hi-Fi At 7am on Saturday mornings.
TURN TO!
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posted on
07/02/2013 11:53:49 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: laplata
I have the 3 CD set. Great series.Me too.
I remember begging my mother to let me stay up on Fri. night to watch the show. It was on around 11 pm.
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posted on
07/03/2013 3:35:16 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Vinnie
A great series.
Produced when NBC was on our side.
To: GodfearingTexan; SkyDancer
Thanks...
My dad made an emergency landing with his B-29 at Iwo coming back from the last mission of the war.
We owe our very lives to the sacrifices made by the valiant Marines who stormed ashore Iwo Jima.
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posted on
07/03/2013 6:05:02 AM PDT
by
Northern Yankee
(Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: mitch5501
I bought mine for $5.00 at Big Lots.
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posted on
07/03/2013 6:21:13 AM PDT
by
DeaconBenjamin
(A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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