History Channel World Wars Series (FAIL)

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Hopeing to ecape the Swamp people,mountain people etc.. I tuned in to the history channels World Wars series only to discover the German troops used Enfiled No 1s not Mausers. Who knew? Did anyone know the young Adolph Hitler trained with a 1917 Enfield?
Even the Japanese were carring Enfields.

I taped it so I will watch the credits and see if Dr. Seuss was the tecnical advisor.

Apparently som factual errors as well. History Channel World Wars Show - When History Goes Badly - Esquire

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[WarPig1976]

The whole thing stunk. I found it sort of "revisionist" if you catch my drift. The wrong weapons was just icing on the cake. Agreed, FAIL....

[25-5]

Revisionist is the key word. I didn't know the Krauts & Japs started WWII because their feelins was hurt.
The misuse of firearms was so bad I thought it on purpose. I was surprised that the History Channel would show such a misrepresentation.

[jmoore]

One more reason not to miss TV. Have been without for several years now. All I miss is the RADAR channel. And even it wasn't all that accurate at times.

[Al Diehl]

I left and went outside when they "implied" that a young George S. Patton personally mounted the first machinegun on a vehicle (after showing him firing at an unseen enemy with a No1, MKIII, in Mexico)

Revisionist, that's what I was looking for. The people that like to re-write history are rarely interested in the facts. So, having all the wrong weapons and equipment doesn't even bother them because the audience thay were after are those that don't know any better, anyway. In fact, I think that they hope for that audience because they are clueless.

The funny part is that they pretty much had the right weapons and equipent to portray correctly if, they had just put them in the hands of the right people.

Al

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

More revelations. The Germans used B-17s to bomb Poland & C130s to drop para troops into France, the Japanese used modern warships with doppler radar and surface to air missles . The errors are to obvious to not be intentional.
Whoever produced the series should be ashamed. The "MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA" series was good with amazing CGI. A shame they botched this. D-day in HD friday. I am prepaired to be disappointed.

[303tom]

I watched part of em, & yes it sucked !.....................

[Anzac15]

No 1 Enfields being used with no mags as well! Oh man was it lame..............

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

D-Day in HD much better. Actual footage of the landing with interviews of the survivors.
The peace and prosperity to many take for granted today was purchaced at an incalculable price. Thanks to all who gave so much and to those here who keep their memory alive.

[Vincent]

One more reason not to miss TV. Have been without for several years now. All I miss is the RADAR channel. And even it wasn't all that accurate at times.

Same here. We haven't had a TV for 8 years.

There's a radar app on my phone that's pretty good.