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Monthly Archives: March 2010

B-17 Ride Along

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

So…I logged into Facebook and I saw that my brother in law, who is a cameraman for a TV station in SLC, flew in a B-17 yesterday.
Wait. What? He did what?
So there was the B-17 Liberty Belle starting me down, and I couldn’t help but think what a lucky dog he is. [...]

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The Pacific: Episode 3

Monday, March 29, 2010

Episode 3 finds the guys from the 1st Marine Division in transition. It follows Robert Leckie mostly, off the boat in Australia and into the bed of a local woman. The romance between the two is, of course, sexual (it’s HBO…) and a little graphic. I expected a little of this, since [...]

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The Pacific: Episode 2

Friday, March 26, 2010

If there is anything that sums up this episode, it the quote from Sid Phillips, who said that during his time on Guadalcanal, sometime the only thing he could do was “pray and hang on.” And so viewers watched as the characters hung on through the episode, either enduring prolonged shell fire, or wave [...]

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Marine Recruiting Posters

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Okay.  With episode 2 of The Pacific set to air this evening (March 21, 2010) in the US, I thought I’d post a few Marine recruiting posters I found on my inter-web travels.  Of the seven, I like the art deco style of the flight poster best.  There is something about the color and lines [...]

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Marine Sid Phillips dot com

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Bumping around the web this morning, I came across Marine Sid Phillips dot com. It looks like a Phillips family production meant to capitalize on the airing of HBO’s The Pacific. And why not? He has a book called “You’ll be SOR-RE” which is sold via his web site and Amazon for [...]

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The Pacific: Around the Web

Monday, March 15, 2010

Trolling around the net this morning, I noticed about 750 articles were available about the series (via Google News). Some highlights:

HBO is offering the first episode online for a limited time.  Check here.  Registration is required.
Gawker (personal reflection)
the Telegraph (UK) (review)
The Baltimore Sun (the books behind the show)
US News and World Report (personal reflection)

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The Pacific: Episode 1

Sunday, March 14, 2010

So…
It’s here. Episode 1 is in the books. First impressions: man, they got just about everyone in there. Robert Leckie, Sydney Phillips, Eugene Sledge, John Basilone. The first part of the episode was a little “jumpy” and the only reason I was able to follow the characters was that I watched [...]

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The Pacific (Coming March 14, Sunday to HBO)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Browsing through Comcast’s On Demand feature last night, I found many previews related to HBO’s The Pacific, which is set to run on Sundays through March and April, 2010 here in the US. Of note is the 8 minute airfield crossing, from Eugene Sledge’s book With the Old Breed, which is, to the say [...]

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