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Monthly Archives: July 2007

War Stomach

Monday, July 23, 2007

Now this ad caught my eye. It was buried deep in a corner column near the bottom of a back page, one or two from the end. Of course, there was much to worry about in those days (OCT 1944), and modern day worriers need only swap out the term that best suits [...]

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The War (upcoming PBS documentary) by Ken Burns

Sunday, July 22, 2007

So Ken Burns set his sights on WWII after giving us projects like The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The West (one of my favs), among many projects. To this I say:
“Hey, Ken. What took you so long?”
I read in a forum a while back about a guy who just happened to bump into [...]

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Ads from the 1940s, #1

Thursday, July 19, 2007

For about last two or so months, I’ve subscribed to a news archive for access to wartime articles. While the basic searches I’m doing are mostly to confirm things I’ve written, I have found other interesting things, namely the ads. More than a few have made my jaw drop just a little (“Are [...]

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The Pacific War (#2)

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The link below concerns the production of the Pacific War series. I found this info over the pacific war forum posted by “Slit.” He writes:
Thanks to appell8 over at the wildbillguarnere.com forums for informing the community about a online diary Dale Dye is doing for the series. Check it out here:
http://www.warriorsinc.com/cfblog/
As of July [...]

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Band of Brothers (some background from Mark Bando)

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Band of Brothers…loved it.
To me, the series represents a high point in pop culture consciousness concerning World War II. It was wildly popular, and has brought much new blood to the ww2 themed forums around the net. I visit a few of those, and I’ve stopped being surprised at the newbies who refer [...]

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Dogfights

Friday, July 13, 2007

Oh man…I can’t wait for the season premier of Dogfights. To me, this show is the perfect marriage of computer animation and oral history. I read, too, that there is even a video game based on the episodes, though nothing for MAC-type folks.

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Iwo Jima

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Found this on ww2db.com today.
http://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=2686
It’s a period map of Iwo Jima. The caption reads:
“Contour map of Iwo Jima, showing Japanese defense installations as observed from ground study during the period of 19 Feb-19 Mar 1945.”
The number of legend marks is pretty astounding.

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More from the NPG

Monday, July 9, 2007

More from the 20th Century Americans exibit at the National Portrait Gallery:
* Winston Churchill–What struck me about this painting was the striking blue of the uniform, though it’s hard to see that in this picture.
* George Marshall–This one occupied a separate wall…very true to life rendering. Not at all like the MacAuthor painting.
* Anthony [...]

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Douglas MacAuthur

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Now this one over at the NPG caught my eye among all the ww2 portraits. All the portraits there, and most others I’ve seen, are generally as true to life as the artist can make them. It’s almost as if a different kind of visual interpretation breaks the rule of painting “serious war [...]

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George Patton

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Over at the National Portrait Gallery today and wandered in to the 20th Century Americans exhibit. This area, more or less, was the WWII section with portraits of Marshall, Halsey, Mark Clark, Churchill, Ike (though his was only 8×11—hopefully he has something better over in the American Presidents wing, though I didn’t have the [...]

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