The most amazing thing was seeing the country, the press and Hollywood rally behind our efforts to defeat the mortal threats from Germany and Japan. We face the same mortal threats today, but now the press, Hollywood and even our own Senators and Congresscritters are aligned with the enemy. How far we have fallen in 60 short years.
It doesn't look like the History Channel has the show in its schedule, but if it comes around again, I highly recommend it.
A very good show. Stirring, as you said. It replays every so often...I've seen it maybe four times on the H channel.
Read a book about Wake Island when I was in JHS (early 60s). Very clever tactics. Using palm trees to look like AA guns so the Japs wasted bombs on them, while the real AA guns were in hiding.
Can you imagine the MSM reporting on them now?
WILDCATF4F3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haven't seen it but I hope to. Actually about 100 POWs were executed on Wake later on in the war.
I saw it. Very good. I was surprised that they found five survivors who were in good enough health to travel...extrapolating from the ages of the guys and when they enlisted, I surmised that it was filmed in 2002 or thereabouts. There was a minor historical nitpick or two, but nothing worth metioning. Well done overall.
The saga of Bill Taylor, the civilian construction worker who escaped and made his way across China, is worth a movie itself. I googled his name and there's very little about him. Somebody needs to write his story.
The Civilians were slaughtered, the ones who stayed.
They killed them all after using them to rebuild the Island.
Have you seen Breaking Vegas on History Channel yet? Quite a good show about human ingenuity.
PACIFIC ALAMO by John Wukovits is an excellant read.