A few months ago, I was on a YouTube kick watching videos about the Pacific aircraft carrier battles of WWII.
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BOB was AWESOME! PACIFIC, Meh - I hope they nail this one!
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OP updated with the fantastic trailer released this week.
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I would have much rather fought in Europe than the Pacific. |
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I suppose, but as has been said by someone with far more historical knowledge and combat experience than me-- the deadliest battle is the one you're currently in. Who can say Tarawa was worse than Omaha Beach? The fact that 8 of 11 Germans who died in WWII were killed by the Russians certainly helped the Allies, but the U.S. still lost more than twice the number of troops in Europe in a shorter amount of total time than we did in the Pacific. A couple of months ago I posted a fact re: the air war over Europe; more Army Air Corps soldiers were killed in action over the skies of Europe than the entire Marine Corps during the war. Was the air war more of a meat-grinder than the Pacific theater? If you go by pure number of casualties, it certainly was. Anyway. I didn't mean to come off like a dick. If we were drinking beers around a fire, you'd know by my tone of voice I'm just making conversation. I'm looking forward to this too. |
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Sure, more people died in the European theater. More people fought there. And those bombers conducting daylight raids were deathtraps. But who would you rather face in combat; Germans or Japanese? |
P-38 and p-47 were my planes I loved. Also had soft spot for P-40. On American side.
Germans FW-190, and ME-262 British Spitrefire mk9 was a beast |
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Spitfire was my favorite as a kid, then the P-51D Mustang, and then the F4U Corsair. Was also a big fan of the F6 Hellcat. In the early '90s there was a WWII air combat sim game called 'AirWarrior,' that I played for awhile, which featured 'realistic' aerodynamics and performance parameters for each aircraft. So, for example, if you tried to hold a max rate flat turn in any plane, it'd quickly lose enough AS to stall, usually resulting in a spin. The Corsair would flip over into an upside-down flat spin, true to the actual plane's tendencies. I quickly learned the advantages/disadvantages between stall fighters and E fighters, and why planes like the Mustang and the Corsair were so feared by Axis pilots. |
Was a big Mustang fan for obvious reasons - it was a war winner as a bomber escort.
And man, if you don't like the P-38 lighting, you're doing it wrong. Now as to the show itself - I'm a little worried about the characters. BoB was character driven. The action/cinematography helped, but it was Damien Lewis, Ron Livingston and all the rest of those guys just killing those roles that made that series timeless. I don't feel like these guys look like they have that? |
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