If you liked Band Of Brothers and The Pacific, y'all have 3 weeks to get your Apple TV+ subscription sorted out.
The Pacific fell a bit short of Band of Brothers but I'll still watch em both. Really hard to beat BOB.
Interesting that there are no comments on this show since it started airing. Just watched episode 1. No entirely convinced I'll bother with ep2.....
Watched episode 1 last night. The show doesn't seem as "real" as Band of Brothers or The Pacific but it was worth wasting the time. The battle scenes were pretty graphic but from what I've read and watched previously they seem accurate. I'm going to want episode 2 and decide from there.
This is the modern remake into a mini series. Minus the in-depth leadership story lines or a cool mug on the fireplace hearth. …and CGI instead of real B-17s.
I woke up last weekend in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep. Whatever channel I was watching had 12 O'Clock High, followed by The Rat Patrol and then Combat. I loved Rat Patrol when I was a kid. It somehow hasn't stood the test of time for me. Seemed incredibly corny considering you can watch actual combat footage on the History Channel now that's the real deal and not censored at all.
I remember that being on when I was a kid, very briefly. It had to be taken off as it caused a huge outcry from blokes who actually fought in the desert as the American forces did none of what was depicted in the show which was actually carried out by the the SAS.
Jeebus! It was a TV show. You know, it's like six shooters with infinite rounds, ditto for the machine guns. I never ran out of ammo when I was a kid playing army...just like on the tube. Somehow I doubt the TV bomber guys could survive 3 years flying over Germany every week (at 10:00 pm east coast time) with an attrition rate of 16%.....But they did (at least on TV).
Was the Rat Patrol the show with guys on two army jeeps in the desert with each a machine gun setup on the back?
I don't think a TV show in the US showing the Pacific Islands being taken one by one by the Royal Navy and British forces would have gone down too well here. It was only 25 years or so since the desert war took place and a lot of those blokes felt that it was bit of an insult to suggest that it was the US forces who were involved in that part of the campaign with a token Brit thrown into the mix to give it authenticity. Yes.
