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Monthly Archives: July 2007

The Pacific War

Friday, July 6, 2007

Saw this over at the War Movie Blog dated June 13. I’m a little behind the scoop here, I know. But it is an info update on the long awaited follow up to the wildly popular Band of Brothers mini-series.
Looks like filming is set for August and release sometime in August 2009. [...]

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Airborne Demonstration team

Thursday, July 5, 2007

This is a pretty cool vid via youtube of the World War II Airborne Demonstration Team. That’s Don Burgett, 101st A/B veteran and noted author, climbing into the plane early in the piece for a little inspection. At 4:38, the camera man exits the plane. Notice the slack time before the shute [...]

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Some mail…61 years late

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Imagine getting a knock on the door and a devliery man says he has a package for you. “Okay,” you think. But here’s the kicker. The package is a little late…60 years or so. The word is that the package was opened and it turns out that it “contained a black-and-white [...]

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Paul Fussell

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Way back in the day, I read The Great War and Modern Memory. That was grad school in a class called Continental European literature. We read a wide variety of texts there, but Fussell’s stood head and shoulders above all others. Much later, I came to Fussell’s other works, notably Wartime and [...]

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Paintings…

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Several months ago, I visited the newly christened NMoftheMC. I wrote about it here, and Peter Chen generously posted it, including 18 photos, web site, the World War 2 Database.
Thinking about all our modern technologies now, it’s easy to forget that in the 1940s, the armed services employed hundreds of artists to document operations throughout [...]

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Numero uno…

Monday, July 2, 2007

This site is a media project _example_ for others to review. In short, I wanted to use a site that would help organize info on ww2-themed literature, movies, sites, and other media. So here goes…

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