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Band of Brothers & The Pacific

Redress said:
I try and do some reading every day, both with a book next to the toilet, and some before bed every night. I am on a civil war kick right now, just finished a book on the Battle for Atlanta, next up is Sears' Chancellorsville, then Double Canister at 10 Yards(about the union artillery at Gettysburg), then The Battle of the Wilderness.

When you retire, if you are married your wife will have way too many projects for you, and your body will not let you stay awake if you lay down to read.
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Yeah, confirmed by talking to others. :shrug: Oh well. I signed up for the full duration, as it were.
 
RetiredUSN said:
As a 6'3" retired sailor who worked on many of the "Subron 10" subs alongside the USS Fulton from 79-81, I have the utmost respect for the sub crews. I worked on the Fairbanks Morse 5 1/4 emergency diesel generators on the....... Trepang, Pargo, Dace, Billfish, Greenling, and the Pargo.

Those were by far the tightest spaces I had ever experienced in 20 years, and I have numerous little burn scars to show for it. ;)
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I think I would struggle on a sub - but I have never been on one.
What is the air like, does it get stale?
Do sailors just every snap from being so confined what do they do for them if that happens?
 
can2man said:
I think I would struggle on a sub - but I have never been on one.
What is the air like, does it get stale?
Do sailors just every snap from being so confined what do they do for them if that happens?
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Most bubble heads are wrapped pretty tight and get along with each pretty well. Like any ship, there are niche groups among the crew with the same likes and dislikes.

Modern nuke subs are generally very clean.
 
OldFatGuy said:
Make your own shows and movies. :8)
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We do and will continue to however we don't have the same reach that Hollywood does. What is that old saying, " History is written by the victor?"
 
Higgins86 said:
We do and will continue to however we don't have the same reach that Hollywood does. What is that old saying, " History is written by the victor?"
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I was pulling your leg.

There's always A Bridge Too Far, a joint effort about a joint effort, that failed.

:8) = old Ascii emoticon for crazy eights. No modern equivalency. Referring to a dead man's hand, Aces and Eights. Last thing a soldier wanted to see when playing poker.

And that General McAuliffe at Bastogne never said "nuts." He really said "Get F*****d!" Couldn't print that in the papers.
 
OldFatGuy said:
I was pulling your leg.

There's always A Bridge Too Far, a joint effort about a joint effort, that failed.

:8) = old Ascii emoticon for crazy eights. No modern equivalency. Referring to a dead man's hand, Aces and Eights. Last thing a soldier wanted to see when playing poker.

And that General McAuliffe at Bastogne never said "nuts." He really said "Get F*****d!" Couldn't print that in the papers.
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For the most part I don't mind it. I think the only one that made me angry was U-571 as that was just ridiculous on so many levels.
 
Carjosse said:
I finished watching Band of Brothers last week and I have 3 episodes of The Pacific remaining. I never watched either of them before as I was 5 when Band of Brothers first aired in 2001 and I am sure most people have never heard of The Pacific as it came out 10 years later as a companion to Band of Brothers.

I have to say that both series are some of the best television I have ever seen with incredible storytelling and action scenes. Though Band of Brothers is definitely better in the storytelling department as The Pacific focuses a lot more on individual soldiers rather than an entire unit, but this is due to the source material focusing on the individual soldiers rather than the entire unit like the book Band of Brothers. Both are still amazing though. I bought both on Blu-ray and I am very impressed at how both of them look and sound, the sound design is especially impressive if you have good stereo headphones or a surround sound setup. Both productions are incredibly immersive. The extra features on the Blu-ray are also nice if you want to learn more about the characters and historical events surrounding each show or the behind the scenes making of.

I highly recommenced watching or re-watching both.
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Before there was a TV show there was a book.

https://www.amazon.com/Band-Brother...id=1516463525&sr=1-1&keywords=stephen+ambrose
 
Higgins86 said:
For the most part I don't mind it. I think the only one that made me angry was U-571 as that was just ridiculous on so many levels.
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Hollywood complete went off reality in The Great. Escape! One trip we drove from Denmark through northern Germany (Hamburg, Laboe{U995}, Peenemunde,) and went to Zagan (then Sagan, Germany), Poland. Memorials to ‘the fifty’ very moving. But the bulk of the Americans had been moved before MAR44. Still a rousing good film!
 
PoS said:
Read it, but it barely touches on who most of the men of Easy company were- I had to go into Wikipedia to get even more details, like Spiers actually executed his own sergeant and Liebgott wasnt actually Jewish.
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They still had a limited time to do things maybe you would enjoy the Blu-ray features which do go more in depth about the men I beileve. The actor for Spiers threw me for a spin at first because I only know him from his role in Gossip Girl, kind of hard to view him as he is in Band of Brothers, at least at first.
 
RetiredUSN said:
As a 6'3" retired sailor who worked on many of the "Subron 10" subs alongside the USS Fulton from 79-81, I have the utmost respect for the sub crews. I worked on the Fairbanks Morse 5 1/4 emergency diesel generators on the....... Trepang, Pargo, Dace, Billfish, Greenling, and the Pargo.

Those were by far the tightest spaces I had ever experienced in 20 years, and I have numerous little burn scars to show for it. ;)
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I was on a 637 long hull. We had a FM 38F 5-1/4. 780 HP @1200 RPM, I believe. When we med moored and ran it for several days, you had to take off any metal objects before you went down there. It was loud and it was hot.
 
Higgins86 said:
For the most part I don't mind it. I think the only one that made me angry was U-571 as that was just ridiculous on so many levels.
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Harvey Keitel, in real life, has a fear of water, and drowning. He won't sit in a tub, only shower. True. I first heard that from a girl who had lived with him for awhile. Later, during an interview in some magazine, he spoke about that fear, and some other phobias he enjoys.

As ridiculous as U-571 it was partly true. More ridiculous, the first capture of a naval Enigma machine and associated cipher keys from a U-boat were made on 9 May 1941 by HMS Bulldog of Britain's Royal Navy, commanded by Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell. The U-boat was U-110. In 1942, the British seized U-559, capturing additional Enigma codebooks. The British hadn't informed the Americans yet, because they didn't trust the American OSS, too many Nazi sympathizers in the US. A reasonable set of doubts.

One of my favorite war movies https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/king_of_hearts_1967/

Tho a movie about WWI, it was partially based on a true event during WWII.
 
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