Posted on 11/19/2009 6:27:07 PM PST by Federalist Patriot
The History Channel is airing this week a truly remarkable series - World War II HD:
WWII in HD is the first-ever World War II documentary presented in full, immersive HD color. Culled from thousands of hours of lost and rare color archival footage gathered from a worldwide search through basements and archives, WWII in HD will change the way the world sees this defining conflict. Using footage never before seen by most Americans--converted to HD for unprecedented clarity--viewers will experience the war as if they were actually there, surrounded by the real sights and sounds of the battlefields.
Here are some clips from the series to give you an idea what it is like . . . . (VIDEOS)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
I liked the story from the guy who captured 18 nazis with a mine detector. LOL
I’ve been literally captivated by this TV series this week.
It’s truly stunning to watch. I’ve gained a different appreciation for what our heroes back then had to go through, and it has certainly given me a different perspective on what war is. A truly amazing TV series, I HIGHLY recommend everyone to watch it. I’ve been ‘DVRing’ every episode.
I have a far greater respect for my grandfather these days than I did when he was living. He spent a good bit of the winter under fire and trapped during the battle of the bulge.
He was a radioman who became an electrician when he returned stateside and eventually became an electrical inspector.
I agree completely. I is “stunning.” My Dad was in World War II, and was at Okinawa and other places in the Pacific. This has given me a much greater sense of what he experienced. I wish he were alive to see it with me.
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Same here! My grandfather was in the battle of the bulge too. He told me stories about it when I was a kid, but I was too young to really understand the significance of what he was telling me. I was 13 when he died, so my time with him was brief. I so wish I could talk to him about it now. My father was in Vietnam, but I he will never talk much about it, even when you try to get him to. What little he HAS told me was pretty bad.
My grandfather didn’t want either of his sons to go to vietnam simply because he had seen war and didn’t want them to face it. One ended up doing his service in the national guard and the other got a scholarship to UofM. He wasn’t anti war or liberal in any sense of the word, he simply felt that he had paid enough and didn’t want to risk his sons. If they had wanted to go he would have backed them.
Granddad was such a gentle and kind man, its hard to imagine him in the middle of a brutal war.
He told me that one of the things that sustained him through the brutal imprisonment is that every evening he and his bunk mates would get together and pray. He said somehow it renewed them and gave them the peace to sleep and the strength to face another day.
I remember on the show last night there was a man who was talking about hitting a German in the head and slitting his throat while he was separated from his unit and afraid(the same guy that captured 18 people with a mine detector mentioned before). It seemed to bother him terribly, even to this day. I guess when people are in a war zone, a certain level of survival instincts take over, and when you come back home, it's difficult to cope with when you think about what you had to do to stay alive.
I remember a history channel show about WWI pilots. One of them said at nearly 100 years old that he still woke up with nightmares.
What has struck me is the sacrifice their generation made to keep America, and the rest of the Western World free. Today, we don’t know, or many of us care, about sacrifice. We’re beginning to learn because of what’s happening economically, and politically. But we have a way to go before we reach the level our ancestors endured. We’ve lost sight of how fortunate we are; and all because of what they lived without, and endured, so that we may prosper.
I’ve seen other historical films showing the Nazi concentration camps in the past. But never before have I seen them with this new and uneasy perspective. One wonders if we will some day be put in one of those camps like the Jews were. Hard to believe that the thought isn’t out of the realm of possibility these days. But that’s where we are...and so fast. Things have changed so damned fast.
The Jews weren’t armed.
Wow! That’s awesome! Especially to have it digitized and online. It will now live forever in the vastness of our modern intrawebs.
The footage from the death camps was unspeakable, and I’m sure it probably didn’t do it much justice.
No one with a soul could possibly do that to another human being, or even an animal.
There are people in this world that would have that happen to us right now if they had their way. Always keep that in mind.....
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