The War

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[Sound of gears grinding] I've always been a fan of World at War myself.

[normiss 892]

sometimes it pales in comparison to
"Forums at War"

[ryoder 1,590]

Ken Burns was a guest on The Daily Show last night. Their video is up on their web site today.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[kallend 2,146]

Well, Episode 5 gave the largest naval battle in history (Leyte Gulf), a major US victory, less than one minute of coverage, and practically no coverage at all to the advance of Patton's 3rd Army except to say that it ran out of fuel.

It spent lots of time, however, on the ineptness of General Dahlquist (general in charge of the Lost Battalion disaster in the Vosges), the mess of Market Garden, and on the bloodbaths in the Hurtgen Forest and on Peleliu which, the program was at great pains to emphasize, were unnecessary in the first place.

I continue to believe that this series is giving a most unbalanced coverage.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[normiss 892]

and the 15 minutes of coverage of the way General McArthur mishandled the Phillipines.
I would agree with your take on it.
They do seem to be concentrating on our mistakes, to the point of making it seem almost a miracle that we won. Damn did they get some men killed in the Hurtgen Forrest...didn't we have bombers???
I thought the only positive detailed coverage was the Indian War Chief, Chief Medicine Crow.

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Anyone been watching the PBS series this week?

Good series covering the war at home and at the front. Ken Burns was very explicit in his coverage of Japanese-American internment, women in the factory, segregation, military fuck-ups, and death in the air, land, and sea.

Golly, sorry I missed something done by such an unbiased reporter.

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

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Well, Episode 5 gave the largest naval battle in history (Leyte Gulf), a major US victory, less than one minute of coverage, and practically no coverage at all to the advance of Patton's 3rd Army except to say that it ran out of fuel.

It spent lots of time, however, on the ineptness of General Dahlquist (general in charge of the Lost Battalion disaster in the Vosges), the mess of Market Garden, and on the bloodbaths in the Hurtgen Forest and on Peleliu which, the program was at great pains to emphasize, were unnecessary in the first place.

I continue to believe that this series is giving a most unbalanced coverage.

Having a mental image of you in your bathrobe with a stopwatch and a legal pad

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[kallend 2,146]

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Well, Episode 5 gave the largest naval battle in history (Leyte Gulf), a major US victory, less than one minute of coverage, and practically no coverage at all to the advance of Patton's 3rd Army except to say that it ran out of fuel.

It spent lots of time, however, on the ineptness of General Dahlquist (general in charge of the Lost Battalion disaster in the Vosges), the mess of Market Garden, and on the bloodbaths in the Hurtgen Forest and on Peleliu which, the program was at great pains to emphasize, were unnecessary in the first place.

I continue to believe that this series is giving a most unbalanced coverage.

Having a mental image of you in your bathrobe with a stopwatch and a legal pad

If you can't time a minute in your head, you should give up skydiving.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.