Hanks has crowed all week about how it will show US troops doing awful things to the Japanese, so I wouldn’t expect much.
Rastus:
And those scenes are actually what occurred. I thank God have never been to war and the guys in this series are true heroes, but what is in the series is based on the accounts of the war as experienced by Robert Leckie, Hugh Sledge and John Basilone.
Perhaps you should read the books yourself, i.e. A Helmet for my Pillow and “With the Ole Breed” and compare the books with the series.
I don’t think Hanks is saying anything different from what every Marine or Army veteran has said about the war in the Pacific. It was much more brutal than in Europe because other than the SS, the Wermecht, i.e. regular Germany Army still followed Western Civilization codes of behavior in war and when they were defeated, they would surrender. Against the Japanese, if there were 20,000 or 30,000 Japanese milatary on an Island, the Marines were going have to Kill 99% of them and I don’t think there is any pretty way to do that, as necessary as it was to do.
Rastus:
I know see the comment Hanks made as I read where he was interviewed by Doug Brinkley and made the “racist and terror” comment, etc. I think there will be enough backlash against him based on these comments, heck the Japanese were far more racist than anything in the U.S. during 1940 as there treatment of Chinese and Koreans demonstrated starting in 1937. So I see what you are getting at. Nevertheless, Hanks as an interpreter of History is what he is, a deconstructionist liberal but I think his co-producers and directors and script writers still did a great job with the series. If Hanks wants to try and give it a liberal bs slant, then we can go after him on that.