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Texanne

Texanne

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BoB is on right now, Sunday morning, The History Channel. Episode 6: Bastogne. My favorite episode.
 
I think for most BoB fans, Bastogne is the consensus best episode.


Here's a good one. Best TV Miniseries ever - Lonesome Dove or Band of Brothers?
 
Why We Fight is on now. I can always hold it together pretty well until the prisoner salutes Perconte. Then I lose it.

It hard to believe, but there were people in the US that refused to believe what was happening over there. My dad took photos, had an x-ray tech process the film, and hid the negatives in the heel of his boot until he got home. He had the photos printed, and BoB is right on about the bodies piled like stacks of cord wood. I still have some of those photos. In a very safe place.
 
I feel you Tex. My Grandfather was a combat photographer in the Army attached to the Rainbow Division and as such he got the dubious distinction of being one of the first Americans into Dachau.

I have become the custodian of his prints since his passing and am still trying to find a home for them. They shouldn't be trusted to a single person, they need to be saved for all.
 
If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it.

It really fills in the blanks to a lot of the stories. It amazed me how much respect the men had of Lt. Sobel despite how much of a prick he was. Most of the men credit his training at Taccoa as the reason they survived the War (despite his chickenshit style).

Sobel tried to kill himself later, he lived out his life always resenting Easy Company.

I'm reading "Brothers in Battle - Best Of Friends" by Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron right now. Next on my list is Dick Winters book.

Big fan of BoB, should be required reading/viewing of every American citizen.
 
I just got my box set back after loaning it to a friend who doesn't have HBO. (Shadowdancer gave it to me for Christmas when it first came out -- one of the best presents I've ever received!)

Needless to say, my friend has now signed up for HBO in anticipation of The Pacific, which actually was his favorite WW2 theater.
 
SonofaSon:

Have you considered the Holocaust Museum in Houston as recipient for your pictures? I'm sure they would love to have them.

If you haven't been there, subject matter notwithstanding, it is a most impressive repository of the record of Nazi atrocities in WW II The scene that most struck me was that of the beginning of the Nuremberg war crime trials when the defendants were asked to plead "guilty" or "not guilty".

Carved in wood and near life-sized, the scene captures the moment when Rudolph Hess, half-risen from his seat, said "Nein!" A stunning rendition of a dramatic point in time.
 
I never realized so many Texas grads would have such a collection of rare WWII photos. If there are enough of you guys out there you may want to contact the Blanton people. It would be an inspiring piece at the new museum and would give these photos a more personal touch to students who could see that they came from family members of other longhorns.
 
I think I might like The Breaking Point a little more than Bastogne. Those 2 are definitely the best 2 episodes in the series.
 
My list:

1) Why We Fight
2) The Breaking Point
3) Points
4) The Last Patrol
5) Bastogne
6) Day of Days
7) Curahee
8) Crossroads
9) Replacements
10) Carentan -- The only episode I don't like because the Blithe subplot is not just historically inaccurate, it's false.
 
Has the D-Day Museum in NO been restored? Shadowdancer and I went there in 2002 when we were in NO for the Tulane game. I understand it was hurt by Katrina, but more damage was done by looters. A terrible shame!

It was an absolutely fantastic place to go if you are a WW2 buff. Even had Harry Connick doing the narration for the section on the Higgins crafts.

I want to go back there someday.
 
I like Bastogne best because it focuses on the life of the combat medic, which is what my father did in the war.

At least he didn't shovel **** in Louisiana!
 
Nola, glad to know that. I had heard that it was damaged and that people stole all kinds of stuff, but I am glad to find that's probably not true.
 
Great thread Texanne.

NUTS!

Read Ambrose BofB years ago before the series. My videos of BofB are my most prized recording of anything. If I see the series on History Channel, unless a Longhorn football game is on, I watch it as if I am watching it again for the first or second time.... even though I have probably watched in 25 -30 times (not an exaggeration) over the 8-9 years since it first appeared on HBO.

Someone posted a couple of months ago that Spielberg, etal, HBO are filming a similar type of series on some part of the war in the Pacific - maybe Guadalcanal, Iwo or Okinawa?


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Ive gotten to sit and talk to a member of ez company that experienced all of that. He has commentary on the extras and he told me that Bill Garnier was his squad leader.
 
Even better is that it was on the HD History Channel as well! I'm also a big fan of the Replacements episode - mainly because I'm fascinated by Operation Market-Garden and what a screwup it was by Monty.
 
I'm a big fan of the original series, hopefully the Pacific is as good. My Grandfather was on Peleliu, though he didn't talk much about it. From my reading it was a rough spot- it's still hard to imagine the kind old guy I know being a part of that.
 
I heard that Blythe didn't die as stated at the end of the Carentan episode and went on to serve in the Army after the war. Was the temporary blindness scene also false? If so, it makes sense because I always thought that scene didn't really fit in with the spirit of the series. Too mystical. It made Winters look like some heor with a magic touch when he was an every-man with heuvos de acero.
 
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