[Snoopers-868th]

Look, I happen to know there was no Air Force it was the Army Air Corp. Let’s split hairs. My point was that with the commentary it could have been mentioned since other references were made regarding the social aspects. BECAUSE this was a narrow perspective it was O.K. to leave out. HOWEVER, if this is all a high school kid sees—it is a revisionist version of WW-II. Plain and simple. And my example was pointing to important omissions that I believe those other men who were there would not be happy about.

[kabar]

I agree with you, which is why I said seriously and then provided you with some real information about the battle. The US Army suffered one third of the casualties on Guadalcanal. You would never know that from the Burns version of history. But that's the point. It really isn't history, just a collection of personal anecdotes of people who participated in the war, just like my father and his four brothers. Over 16 million Americans served in uniform during WWII and only a small percentage saw actual combat.

I am a Vietnam vet, but my personal experiences don't constitute the real history of what happened, just my narrow view.