@BeeGuyTravis@Clint_Davey1 BoB is successful because E Company 506, were all together from Taccoa to Germany. They were kind of an outlier and military experiment in that regard for unit cohesion. In the Pacific you didn’t have that, guys would rotate after 3 campaigns or potential the lottery.
@Clint_Davey1@HuntingtonJoel They could follow units but what falls through is that there were no marines still together from basic to the Canal to Okinawa. Saul David’s book Devil Dogs about K 3/5 makes the argument that unit could be but the characters would be rotated out after campaigns or lottery.
@dead_baseball What I don’t understand, is that most people are complaining about showing an entire miniseries during a high school history course. Obviously you wouldn’t do that, but we used to have required reading both in Summer before the school year and for homework in Lit classes.
@Judah02945402@pinglyadya@DaOfficialVigil After the Johnston took 3 18.1in shells and 3 6.1in shells her skipper Commander Ernest Evans while missing two fingers, his hand pouring blood, face singed and burned, and having had his shirt blown off his body continued to bark orders while refusing medical attention.
Seeing a homeless couple cuddled together on a sheet of cardboard melted my heart and made me sick at my stomach at the same time. The world never ceases to amaze me
@ShroomToaster@sxp0096@CaptainCons What we see in the series The Pacific is the show creators making scrapping the story put together by the historians on the production team which was to cover individuals from the very beginning at Pearl/The Philippines through Midway/the Canal and straight to Okinawa