[Red6]

We had it earlier but CHOSE not go into mass production and fielding.

Wiki I think is accurate on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M26_Pershing

From memory based on a book I read years ago (I could be off), by wars end only 310 M26 Perishing’s were in Europe.

We are infatuated with WWII movies. In part that is cool because it was a just war, we won, there are many heroic stories to talk about, this war was a world changing event (huge impact)...

But on the other hand I think there are also another reasons:

It was the last war we definitively won and as a nation stood united behind.

It’s the last war where we see ourselves definitively as the “good guys,” and everything that followed has been expeditionary, with economic and political interests interwoven in the conflict.

There is no conflict nor repercussions killing “Nahhhzi’s” in movies, but China might not like and impose trade restrictions with a movie like Red Dawn II if we portray them bad and as the enemy (so we rewrote the story to be North Korea instead of China). You have the “Russians” and the “Nahhhzi’s” that you can kill by the thousands, portray them in an overly cliché and negative manner in US movies, and no one will complain, not even the Germans.

***Given todays political and social climate, if you made a movie about the Muslim vs. non-Muslim conflict in Africa, you run into political and social sensitivities may it be religion, race, and females.

[NWFree]

Hollyweird is simply incapable of producing accurate and historical depictions without corrupting the entire result with left wing dogma. They rewrite history and attempt to punish political opponents.

[Locomotive Breath]

It was the last war we definitively won and as a nation stood united behind.

The American left (oxymoron alert - the left is unAmerican) supported WW II because the U.S. was allied with Stalin and the Soviet Union. They wanted the U.S. to be next commie conquest. These days I feel they might be on the threshold of achieving their goal.

[rlmorel]

I just finished listening to the audio version of James Clavell’s “Whirlwind” about a multinational helicopter company working in Iran back in 1979, and how the revolution threatened to destroy the company and get many of them killed.

I had read the book many years ago. It was an astonishingly long audiobook (73 chapters) and must have easily been close to twenty hours but I came away with the feeling that, if there was EVER a movie for a mini-series, and the casting team would have had a blast selecting characters to play the parts, it is a mini-series that most producers and film companies would be unwilling to make out of fear they would offend someone.

Shame.