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 View Full Version : WWII in HD 
 MarshCappa 11-16-2009, 09:07 PMI don't know if this is considered a movie but the History Channel is airing color footage of WWII.  So far it's mesmerizing.  God Bless the troops who served and those serving now.  Unbelievable.  Maybe this is the wrong forum but I thought I start it here.
 RIJIMMY 11-17-2009, 03:56 PMmust tivo
 beaver 11-17-2009, 05:18 PMI've been catching them when I can. It is some pretty spectacular and almost surreal footage and story.
 Slingah 11-17-2009, 08:18 PMwatching it now.....very interesting...
 striperman36 11-17-2009, 09:10 PMmust tivo
 Do you tivo with Digital, I have the original tivo, i haven't figgered out the new digital comcast box-tivo thing. You?
 PRBuzz 11-17-2009, 09:54 PMI've only watched bits and pieces but recorded the whole thing so far on digital DVR
 TheSpecialist 11-18-2009, 12:18 PMPretty good stuff I have been dvr it.
 stcroixman 11-18-2009, 07:55 PMwatching it now, really good footage. What a hell WWII was. Those islands were defended to the death by Japs. Good thing Truman didn't order an invasion of mainland Japan, the cost of # our guys would have been staggering.
 PRBuzz 11-18-2009, 08:56 PMMade it through the 1st 5 episodes.  Something else!  What really is surprising is the managing of 2 wars 1/2 way around the globe at the same time.  Some times I think the War in the Pacific gets lesser attention than the European campaign.
 
 Nice watching the DVR, very fast forward through the commercials.
 Slingah 11-18-2009, 09:49 PManybody know how many episodes there are? I need to dvr them....
 PRBuzz 11-18-2009, 10:10 PManybody know how many episodes there are? I need to dvr them....
 10
 Slingah 11-18-2009, 11:09 PMthanks buzz...I'll have to find a schedule and dvr them...
 TheSpecialist 11-19-2009, 06:55 PMOne thing that strikes you is how tough America and it's people were back then as compared to nowadays.  
 For instance there was no worry of political correctness, they rounded up the Japanese Americans and interred them to keep an eye on them while the war was going on.  If we did that today, forget about it.
 
 The President and the Congress never hesitated to do what was needed
 
 Sometimes I wish as a nation we could go back a little technologically, and fundamentally to those days.
 PRBuzz 11-19-2009, 06:57 PMThe scale and pace of industrial production boggles the mind:  hundreds of ships, planes, tanks, etc everything to support the was effort.  Everything had to be shipped overseas both east and west.
 spence 11-19-2009, 08:10 PMFor instance there was no worry of political correctness, they rounded up the Japanese Americans and interred them to keep an eye on them while the war was going on.Yea, it was so awsome they even erected a National Park to memorialize the supreme excellence of the event.
 
 Manzanar National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) (http://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm)
 
 blah, blah, blah, blah - save it for the political forum.
 
 -spence
 EarnedStripes44 11-24-2009, 02:06 PMThe old lady kept callin' me to bed last week, I told that broad "**** No; WWII in HD is on."
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