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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, #10

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

TexasNick over the PacificFans.com forum (now defunct) posted a real gem on this web site recently. They are set photos from the Pacific War series, the first I’ve seen outside of a recent news article.
The photos are hosted via flickr under the name of Rens Spanjaard, and the text is dutch, at least according [...]

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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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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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The Pacific War, #4

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Dateline: AUG 10, 2007
More from Dale Dye via his web site on the progress of The Pacific War mini-series, now filming in Australia.
Our two-week period of intense field training – commonly but inaccurately called Boot Camp – is over and we have managed to field a unit of performers and volunteers who have the exciting [...]

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Submarine Service

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Down in Baltimore for a conference this week. As I was walking around the inner harbor after dinner at the DE-LISH Cheesecake factory (try the fish and chips), I thought to myself: “is that a sub over there?”
Indeed, it is the USS Torsk, and on AUG 14, 1945, “she completed her wartime career by sinking [...]

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The Pacific War, #3

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Dateline: July 29, 2007
On his web site, Dale Dye reports training for the series actors is set to begin. He writes: “Once training is complete, our first mission is to film the unopposed landing on Guadalcanal and then the very heavily opposed landings on Peleliu.”
Further, he says that “[o]ur Special Effects magicians have made [...]

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Shark Week #3

Sunday, July 29, 2007

In light of the Shark Week and the documentary Ocean of Fear (premiering today, July 29), I found myself over at the USS Indianapolis Survivors web site reading about Woody James. His day by day chronology of events is most engaging.
From Day 3 of his ordeal:
The day wore on and the sharks were [...]

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