The Pacific

[Trickie Dick]

All you Marines and people interested in WWII history should definitely watch this series. It's made by Spielberg and Hanks, the same people who did the Band of Brothers. I give it :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:.
5 DVDs, 10 parts and 540 minutes. I'm waiting for the 3rd disc.

 

[Big Iron]

You can buy the entire series from Best Buy for $39.00, comes in a nice metal case. Was good too!

 

[wyliec]

Isn't there something similar for Viet Nam?

I may check into the WWII one at B.B.

 

[Big Iron]

Yes,,,, there are several out there for Nam!

 

[Firefly]

All you Marines and people interested in WWII history should definitely watch this series. It's made by Spielberg and Hanks, the same people who did the Band of Brothers. I give it :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:.
5 DVDs, 10 parts and 540 minutes. I'm waiting for the 3rd disc.

:agree:

One of the reasons I still have HBO is some of the great series they make ---- amazing stuff indeed!

 

[Trickie Dick]

Yes,,,, there are several out there for Nam!

Not familiar with a similar one on Viet Nam. I would interested to see that one as well. Was it done by the same people?

 

[bruiser]

My late father in law was on the Hornet in WWII. We have his diary, some battle maps and his uniform. My concentration of WWII study was the pacific war. I will be taking my wife to see the Hornet hopefully this year.

 

[Trickie Dick]

My late father in law was on the Hornet in WWII. We have his diary, some battle maps and his uniform. My concentration of WWII study was the pacific war. I will be taking my wife to see the Hornet hopefully this year.

That is neat. Isn't the Hornet the carrier that Doolittle flew off of on his Tokyo raid?

 

[boborgera]

That is neat. Isn't the Hornet the carrier that Doolittle flew off of on his Tokyo raid?

Yep,That's the one. :2thumbs:

 

[bruiser]

Yep,That's the one. :2thumbs:

Actually that was CV8 which was sunk on 27 Oct 1942 in the battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. The new Hornet was CV12, whose keel was laid in 1942 and was originally supposed to be the USS Kearsarge. But when CV8 was sunk, the Navy renamed it. My father in law was on CV12 from shakedown, through her war period until she was forced to return to the west coast in late 1944 due to bow damage from a typhoon. She never returned to battle as the war ended before repairs were finished.The Japanese referred to CV12 as "the ghost ship". USS Hornet served several tours in Vietnam as an attack carrier conducting SAR and ASW missions. She was also the prime recovery ship for the Apollo 11 mission, and other NASA work. She now rests in Alameda California.