I am trying to listen to "Tora, Tora, Tora" while posting here....

[DemocraticPatriot]

Seems to have been an extremely poor choice, since all the Japanese speak in Japanese, and I cannot see the subtitles from my computer position.... LOL


Guess I will have to give up and move back in front of the television...

I remember first seeing this movie before I was ten years old,
it was the choice of a major network for the 'Friday night movie'...


My father was about 12 years old when the Japanese attacked us...
his 2 older brothers made it into the armed forces before the war ended,
but he was just a shade too young...

[brewens]

1. I have it on DVD. I'm kind of a WWII buff. My dad was long range recon in the South Pacific.

Mostly in 1943. He was a crewman on a PB4Y. The Navy designation for their Liberators.

They were out on patrol in enemy territory on their own most of the time and they were attacked by fighter patrols and chased down some Japanese reconnaissance planes and down one. They lost a few with all hands in unknown locations much like happened to submarines frequently.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. WWII buff, eh?

There is a snippet (2 sentences) in a wikipedia article:

USS General M. B. Stewart (AP-140)

Reaching Norfolk 11 July, she sailed the 22d to Leghorn, Italy, where she arrived 5 August to embark troops for redeployment in the Pacific. Underway 7 August for the Panama Canal, General M. B. Stewart steamed for the East Coast after the Japanese capitulation and arrived 19 August to debark her passengers.

Think about that. You've been in Italy through the end of that, and now you're headed to the Pacific to fight there, but before you get to the Panama Canal, you get word the war is over and you're headed home. Should be more than 2 sentences worth of emotion, right?

How about the ship's own newspaper?







More pages at that site: http://edge-op.org/images/1945-08-19/
(Note it's not https)

[edbermac]

2. Kind of slow and talky.

But the attack scene was very impressive.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Amazon Prime series... World War ll: The Pacific Theater... 24 episodes... excellent documentary

Amazon Prime series... World War ll: The Pacific Theater... 24 episodes... excellent documentary

All great but I recommend the Doolittle and code breaking videos.