"The Pacific" from the makers of "Band of Brothers"

[moz_k2]

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Guys dli namo kailangan magwait ug dugay para sa premiere.
Available na ang episode 1.
Pangita namo sa inyong suki nga source.

[Tarmac]

Guys dli namo kailangan magwait ug dugay para sa premiere.
Available na ang episode 1.
Pangita namo sa inyong suki nga source.

Haha. Try lang ko ug hulat sa cable. Para ma lipay si Spielberg ug Tom Hanks nako.

[Visual C#]

This should be a great movie. Although march pa ma release.

I've watched a documentary on the war of the pacific very dramatic even in real life.
So before watching this movie as an appetizer you can also watch a documentary of the pacific war.
YouTube - Commanders at War-Midway 1/6

Japanese outnumbered US in terms of carriers yet thery'e still able to win a crushing victory against the japanese.

The US would've won regardless of the number of carriers. US industrial output (and access to petroleum, which the Japanese didn't have a lot of) far outmatched Japan's.

Has this series started airing yet?

[Tarmac]

The US would've won regardless of the number of carriers. US industrial output (and access to petroleum, which the Japanese didn't have a lot of) far outmatched Japan's.

Has this series started airing yet?

Even the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who had spent time in Harvard and toured the United States in his younger days, knew there was no way Japan would win a protracted war with the USA. He'd seen enough of that country's industrial might to harbor any delusions of outright victory. A quote attributed to Yamamoto (although unsupported and probably apocryphal) has him famously saying he could "run wild for six months... after that I have no expectation of success." Sure enough, Midway happened six months after Pearl Harbor, and after a long string of Japanese victories throughout the Pacific.

Realistically, and Yamamoto probably thought this, the best Japan could hope for was for the Allies to sue for a negotiated peace. Japan would get territorial concessions around Asia while the Allies could continue their war in Europe unimpeded. (Interestingly enough, Nazi General Hermann Goering would testify after the war that Hitler was banking on America being too preoccupied with the war in the Pacific to stand in the way of Germany's aggression in Europe. As it was, America chose to prioritize the war in Europe)

Nowadays, historians debate whether Midway or Guadalcanal was where the Allies turned the tide in the Pacific. Midway was certainly a devastating blow for the Japanese; the four carriers and invaluable airmen lost were never really replaced. But Guadalcanal was where the Allies started pushing the Japanese back, culminating in the landings less than three years later on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, right at very the doorstep of the Japanese home islands.

Let's watch "The Pacific" and see for ourselves.

The series is now airing in the US. HBO Asia premieres it on Saturday April 3, 9 PM.

[Visual C#]

The turning point for me in the war was Pearl Harbor. Let's face it, if the US didn't enter WWII, we'd be living in a very different world today.

[Tarmac]

The US would've won regardless of the number of carriers. US industrial output (and access to petroleum, which the Japanese didn't have a lot of) far outmatched Japan's.

Has this series started airing yet?

In Midway, the Americans were also very, very lucky.

They had fantastic leadership in Chester Nimitz, who made a gutsy call about committing his very limited forces to Midway, refusing to respond to the Japanese feint in the Aleutian Islands. Repairing the USS Yorktown (heavily damaged in the Battle of Coral Sea) in record time to join the battle was also a phenomenal not to mention providential feat. Yorktown's air wing would make invaluable contributions to the battle.

But above all, Lady Luck was on their side.

[Tarmac]

The turning point for me in the war was Pearl Harbor. Let's face it, if the US didn't enter WWII, we'd be living in a very different world today.

In a way, I agree with you. The US would have gone to war with the Axis powers at some point anyway. The Americans knew it. As early as 1940 production of war materiel was already being ramped up. Pearl Harbor was the trigger. If it wasn't Pearl Harbor it would've been something else.

[salbahis]

watching the pacific right now... wohoooooo..... finally able to download it...

[KE-25]

Well well well arent u the lucky one , how is it? describe it to us

[salbahis]

Well well well arent u the lucky one , how is it? describe it to us

the first episode is all about the start of Guadalcanal Campaign, and the battle in Crocodile River (or was it creek) turkey shoot...., and im not sure if one part of the episode is the battle of the Bloody Ridge, but the whole show is awesome.... brings back the old Band of Brothers feeling, the music from begining is very touching thou...

basicly the show is similar to band of brothers, where they interview them first....