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The Pacific War, #15

Friday, March 21, 2008

I’ve been a little slack in keeping up with the filming of the Pacific War series.  Checking in at Dale Dye’s web site, he states that the production is in its 35th week, with a entry called “Surviving the surviving on Peleliu.”  So check that here.
Poking around IMDB this afternoon, I’d forgotten about some casting choices. [...]

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The Pacific War, #14

Sunday, October 7, 2007

So what do you do when you have no time for anything but work but feel like a post is due? Link to Dale Dye. That’s what you do. His weekly update is as interesting as ever.
I’m particularly impressed with our plans to demonstrate Platoon Sergeant Basilone’s heroics in the fighting on 23-25 October [...]

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The Pacific War, #13

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Saturday, 29 September 2007
If this were a literature course and we were studying the old Freytag pyramid, I’d say this latest entry constitutes some significant rising action. We’ve had a little exposition and are moving steadily toward the climax (though I think we have a ways to go), falling action, and denouement of the [...]

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The Pacific War, #12

Monday, September 24, 2007

Dateline: September 22, 2007
More from Dale Dye on the product of the work taking place now…
In some of the most spectacular and stirring sequences I have ever seen put on film, we landed on the Orange and White Beaches of Peleliu last week. Much of what I saw on those bitterly opposed landing operations looked [...]

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The Pacific War, #11

Monday, September 17, 2007

Dale Dye’s update this week is pretty amazing. It sounds as if the production is right in the thick of it all, specifically the “Peleliu invasion which took place in September 1944, 53 years ago almost to the day,” Dye writes. There is more, about Eugene Sledge:
Late last week, we loaded up PFC [...]

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The Pacific War, #9

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Dateline: Saturday, 8 September 2007
So I was checking out the Entourage season 2 DVD yesterday, and guess who makes an appearance? Dale Dye was there dropping f-bombs all over the place. I thought then…” ’bout time for another entry from Mr. Dye. It’s been a week.”
So this morning, I read that a [...]

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The Pacific War, #8

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Dateline: Sunday, 2 September 2007
Dale Dye has posted another Pacific War update, and the details keep getting better and better.
PFC Leckie and his .30 caliber heavy machinegun crew proved that the old Browning water-cooled weapon can still sustain long periods of fire without over-heating or jamming despite blustery on-shore winds that carried packets of sand [...]

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ww2db.com Featured Image, #4

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

So you might have noticed that I’ve been writing a little about The Pacific War series, now filming in Australia. Lots of folks seem interested in this, so I’m going to ride this wave of interest where ever it takes me.
This week’s featured image shows the beach on Guadalcanal, and a beached transport (Kinugawa [...]

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The Pacific War #7

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Dateline AUG 25, 2007–
Dale Dye has posted an update on The Pacific War project, now filming in Australia. He writes:
It’s hot and muggy here in tropical North Queensland just as it was on Guadalcanal back in August 1942. We’ve managed to sweat our way through a second week of filming on this epic and [...]

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The Pacific War, #6

Sunday, August 19, 2007

TexasNick over www.pacificfans.com posted a link to a beach landing for the Pacific War series, now filming in Australia.
I would love to link up to this, but alas. Visit the link above, read the article, and check out the picture. Sadly, there is only one, and it’s not that big. This section [...]

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