BOB The Pacific Masters of the Air

Masters of the Air had it's moments
I thought the last episode was really good

Overall behind both BOB and The Pacific for me

Band of Brothers was 10/10 on every episode

Masters of the Air and Pacific had some really good episodes but they didn't bat 1.000.

I will say that Pacific has grown on me over the last several years since it first aired... I assume Masters of the Air will also continue to grow on me.

I would not have wanted to fight in the pacific realm because those japs were crazy and fought to the death both on land and at sea with the kamikaze pilots.

Being sitting ducks in those bomber planes would not have been fun either, I have no idea how realistic the prison camps were for all those pilots who parachuted into enemy territory in Germany but they made it seem like the prisoners were kept secure unless you tried to escape. Of course the march through winter had to have been horrific towards the end of the war and I can't imagine how tough being in a prison camp would have been mentally.

The only saving grace from the German campaign was that they were also fighting the Russians on the other front but those were some brutal battles on the way to Germany as well.

I guess the worse part would have been storming the beach on d day because those first to arrive were basically slaughtered and never had a chance.

We lost interest in The Pacific.
Masters of the Air was a big deal for us.
Band of Brothers is too high to use as a measurement against anything else.

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But what situation would you rather be in?

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When I have trouble sleeping at night, I’ll listen to videos like WWII Diaries to keep my mind occupied and drift off to sleep. The episodes are usually about an hour long. Last night, I listened to one about night fighting in the Pacific island hopping campaign. The Japanese thought the Americans fought like office workers and were weak because they wouldn’t fight after dark.

Marines were talking about how small they’d dig their foxholes because that was less space to defend against someone sliding in with you at night. They wouldn’t pile up dirt around the foxhole because that was a dead giveaway a foxhole was there. They dug deeper holes in the corners of their foxholes so they could shove grenades in them before they went off. Your buddy might be 4 feet away in his hole but even a slight whisper was a death sentence so you wouldn’t see or speak to them until daylight. Japanese would crawl on their bellies inch by inch with a hand in front of them with a finger raised so they could detect tripwires in the dark. Each foxhole was like an island and each night was a life or death struggle.

I had to change to a different episode. Give me Europe.