Posted on 07/02/2013 10:04:49 PM PDT by GodfearingTexan
Brilliant documentary series that aired in the 1950s. Awesome musical score that was actually conducted by the NBC orchestra (I used to have the LP). For many Americans, this documentary served as the first extensive moving pictures of the war they'd seen. And as one person commented on one of the youtube pages, if you weren't sitting in front of your TV at the moment it aired, you missed it. How quaint. Good old days.
I remember begging my mother to let me stay up on Fri. night to watch the show. It was on around 11 pm.
later
A little late on the strategery, but as commander, I think Iwo should have been carpet bombed before the invasion.
FWIW, there's a few minutes devoted to the Battle of Samar in THIS Leyte Gulf episode of 'Victory at Sea' -- starting at about the 16:00 mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBMrZSOno-c&list=PLMOJ05TrdIZA7pNQa5YjrHuPIDPdHPIod
Yes. You even got mentioned.
;-)
Hey Mic,
I will have to borrow that from you. I have gone through the The Pacific and Band of Brothers and whatever other WWII movies I have whilst being immobilized.
Mel
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