I put this up at the other site but thought I would post it here too.


I read the reviews - I don't have TV, so I guess I'll just have to read about it, maybe get it on DVD. The 'views say it is pretty realistic and true to life from the marine's-eye view but also a little disjointed, you don't really get a sense for why these guys were being sent to fight over these rocks in the pacific.

When I was a kid we used to watch "Victory at Sea" on TV. I bought it on DVD a couple years ago to watch with my son. Well, it's not as good as I remember. In fact, it's kind of cheesy in that you see a lot of 16" guns go off, generic footage, U.S. airplanes shooting down Japaneseicon airplanes, no context. But what Victory at Sea did pretty well was give you a big-picture narrative of the war in the Pacific. The Midway segment is pretty good. "Ring Around Rabaul" you can watch that and get a sense for why Rabaul mattered. Of course they left out a lot of things, like the battle off Samar. (Which rates its own movie IMHO).

Oh, yeah the series had a really great score by Richard Rogers.

I guess what I'm saying is yeah, watch this show, but go to your library and pick up the 5-DVD set of Victory at Sea for the big picture.

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