But will watch this - with difficulty - my oldest uncle was shot down in WW II and killed, piloting a B-26 Marauder.
I don't think my late Dad could watch it.
B-26 Marauder:
If it is half as good as, RAF story “Piece of Cake, I would be happy.
Just started watching Band of Brothers with my son, good so far.
Victor Davis Hanson had a brilliant insight on the American daylight bombing campaign of Germany in WWII.
The numbers really don’t do Justice to the campaign.
The big thing that the American daylight bombing campaign of Germany did was TO PULL THE 88 FLAK GUNS OFF THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
The Germans pulled them off the Russian front to shoot at our bombers.
The 88 Flak Gun was the greatest killer of Russian tanks.
The Russians were a very tank-oriented army.
Those German 88 Flak Guns weren’t there to kill Russian tanks.
Our bombers allowed the Russian tanks to drive to Berlin.
An absolutely brilliant observation by Hanson.
But will watch this - with difficulty - my oldest uncle was shot down in WW II and killed, piloting a B-26 Marauder.
I don't think my late Dad could watch it.
B-26 Marauder:
“The first two episodes of the nine-episode limited series will premiere on Apple TV+...”
Too bad it’s not more widely available.
I’ve been watching The Pacific and wonder at some of the horrors my uncle must have went through on Okinawa. He never talked about any of it.
I worked with 2 POWs from WWII at Wright Patterson in the early 90s. One an American in a bomber shot down over Germany and a German recon Pilot. The German became my all time favorite engineer. We were all Naspeteers in our successful quest on enabling technologies for hypersonic flight.
https://www.thewisdompost.com/essay/essay-on-success/3247
12 O’Clock High already covered this.
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Band of Brothers is awesome. I can’t wait to see this.
I am sure it will be wokefied. All the pilots will be black lesbians and trannies. All the whites will be stupid fools saved by a black. Bomber Harris will be a skinny Latinx girl who can beat up anyone who stands in her way. Goering and Hitler will have Trump haircuts and wear red trucker’s caps with “Make Nazis Great Again.”
The US Eighth Air Force lost 58,000 airman, the same amount as the Vietnam War. Unbelievable Courage on those airman.
Just finished 12 O’Clock high a couple weeks ago....finished The Pacific last week and finished Band of Brothers (the second time watching it) an hour ago. My Dad’s sister who he grew up with being the youngest of a large family said he wasn’t the same when he got home. All I know is he was a wonderful husband and dad.God bless all our veterans past and present.
One of the more realistic portrayals of the "Battered Bastards of Bastogne".
The US Eighth Air Force lost more men than the entire Marine Corps did in WWII.
Marines killed: 24,511, 3.29% of troops.
8th Air Force killed: 26,000+, 7.42% of troops.
Band of Brothers was a great mini-series on the lives of the men of “Easy” Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. While a “war movie”, it was really about the trials and tribulations of the men, from their training through D-Day and through the end of the war and what happened to them afterwards.
I thought it to be a great series that respected the lives of those it represented, while not disrespecting anyone else.
I have it on DVD, and it is a fantastic series. The cinematics were nothing short of first class.
Masters of the Air might even be better now that some time has passed since BoB as the producers have more to work with, technologically speaking.
Outstanding......
Band of Brothers came out on NetFlix and I am watching from Tecoa all the way through again....... fourth? fifth time? I lack two episodes and then will begin the Pacific again