[PROCON]

For those of us who had Dads (or Moms) who served America in the U.S. Armed Forces during WWII, these movies may have a bit more of a nostalgic draw.

Looking forward to watching some.

My Dad served in the Army in the Pacific during WWII.

[sparklite2]

I’d like to see the same attention paid to Midway, the battle that broke Japan’s back. The story behind it is much more interesting than D-Day. The best D-Day book I have is from the German perspective.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071NTXK2H/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

[clyde260]

My Dad was wounded in North Africa, did recupe in London, was sent to D-Day and was wounded in the battle of the Bulge. He then got busted back to private for shooting a fish he was landing from a boat in the Bering Sea.

[Jane Long]

Thanks for posting. My Dad and Uncle served in WWII....Army and Air Corps.

Will set DVR to record :-)

TCM is my fave channel!

[Jane Long]

And....I just watch The Caine Mutiny, on TCM, the other night.

Bogart, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, etc.

[loveliberty2]

Might be well to note that the generation of children who were in grade school from 1939 to 1945 are now in their 80's/90's--with their heads full of memories of growing up in rural and city areas where almost every household had members in the military services.

A budding Brokaw might do well to put together a book recording their memories of Pearl Harbor attack through August 1945, where, as children, they were impacted by absence/loss of parents, siblings, and other family members, as well as the community war efforts, the school efforts, and the love of country displayed in every community in America.

Time's a'wasting!

[missthethunder]

Ben Mankiewicz Is a scumbag.

He was on “The young turks” on election night 2016.

He hates Trump!

[llevrok]

My dad was in the Pacific too. He was a green Navy doc, right out of a truncated med school (due to the war) in late '43.

He was deployed to a small cargo ship in that had a hold converted to an operating theatre. Every time he saw "Mr Rogers" he'd laugh out loud as it brought back memories of the down times between incoming evacs.

The laughs stopped in 1950 when he was deployed to Korea as a Navy doc assigned to the Marines in Chosin. Never talked about it.

[Mears]

My upstairs neighbor was there. Uses a walker but walks all over town.

[YogicCowboy]

I did not see:

Battle of the Bulge (1965).

That seems a major omission.

[Jane Long]

PDF link of the Complete Schedule ....

https://i.cdn.turner.com/v5cache/TCM/2019/WWII/TCM-WWII-2019-Schedule.pdf

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I am going to celebrate the 75th anniversary of DDay by remembering my now deceased Father In-Law who went in the night before on a glider....was injured by 88 shrapnel around the hedgerows and also did a glider insert in Operation Market Garden.