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There is hope! I got the episode list from PBS, one of the episodes is titled FUBAR! Also, our local PBS is scheduing a "catch-up" next Sunday, showing the previous episodes all day. I've been looking forward to this for a long time! And for those who are concerned about the lack of this battle or that battle, I believe the focus of the piece is on 4 AMERICAN towns and their vets. So, unless someone from that town in Minnesota was the sniper at Stalingrad(?)...we won't hear about it.

I was being a bit harsh on Ken Burns for the liesurely pace of his
“Jazz” and “Baseball” documentaries.
I’m usually the one that my friends/family will accuse of being a
fan of “slow-paced” productions from the BBC or other international shows.
I may not be a big fan of all of Burn’s work-product...but generally
I’d say they beat a lot of the other competitors in the history-documentary market.

Burns and his crew do a great job of documenting pivotal moments
of US history/culture.
I hope Burns and Co. do a bang-up job with their WWII documentary.
And just tell the truth of what happened.
That’s the best way to telling a great history.
Because people realize “Hey, these are real, human, fallible people
that accomplished this task...the sort of thing that the ancients
would usually attribute to a “g-d” or mythic figure.

And I hope some day Burns And Co. will do a BIG special on the American
Revolution (I don’t think they have yet).
It would be great if they went on-site for many of the Revolutionary
Battles...even the ones that happened on what are now totally urban
sites in Boston, NYC, etc.

So, unless someone from that town in Minnesota was the sniper
at Stalingrad(?)...we won't hear about it.

Although VERY unlikely, that wouldn't be impossible.

My brother, in the late 1980s/early 1990s worked with a guy in
a lab at the U. Minnesota med school.

Every summer the guy would take a vacation to Germany to visit
his grandfather...who had been in the SS during WWII.