I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippets..

[ManSGP]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

on Youtube. Damn gien......I don't watch Mediacorp TV. Had it been shown yet? Available on DVD locally? Any members here can provide links for free viewing?

You can download the whole series at http://www.33md.com/movie_2009/html/a5aafe2a48cbe275.html but you need to install QVOD downloader cum player first at http://www.qvod.com/index.htm

 

[Alamaking]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

DL torrent lah Debonerman, more shiok

 

[Unrepented]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

Letters from Iwo Jima also not bad.

http://www.zmovie.tv/movies/view/letters-from-iwo-jima

 

[Unrepented]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

Market Garden also good.

Actually I'm more of a fan of "The Longest Day".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Day_(film)
It's in my DVD collection

In that movie they showed the german, american & french perspective of the war.

 

[Debonerman]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

Wild Geese available on Youtube.

 

[Unrepented]

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Can anyone post the link for Battle of Yamato free movie bo? Thanks

 

[Unrepented]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

1942

http://www.mysoju.com/japanese-movie/1942/the-movie/part-1/

About the movie:


1942. Malaya. Sgt. Yasuo Fujii, a war cameraman, is huddled in a trench, waiting to film the Japanese 6th Army cross the Slim River on its way south to Kuala Lumpur. An enemy mortar shell lands in the trench and, in a heartbeat, Sgt. Fujiiis running through the jungle for his life. Armed with nothing except his 8mm camera, the young soldier soon hooks up with remnants of the scattered 6th Army. Together with three soldiers, he must race against time to get a fatally wounded soldier back to the division in Kuala Lumpur. However, everything starts to go wrong and they get lost in the maze-like jungle. All their maps are wrong and their radio malfunctions. Sgt. Fujii starts sighting mysterious figures through his camera viewfinder, and a female ghost starts to haunt them. Survival is at stake and the ghost is hot on their heels. Will they make it to safety?

 

[johnny333]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

Market Garden also good.

I hate sad movies and operation "Market Garden" was a failure :(

The Longest Day didn't have an ending, it ended with a beginning

Other interesting war movies is the story about Audie Murphy "To Hell & back". And the old movie about Sargeant York. However must take the facts with a pinch of salt as they are made in Hollywood

 

[Conqueror]

Re: I Watch This A Few Days Ago On A VCD

[video=youtube;HqL_dTlYRxE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqL_dTlYRxE&feature=relmfu[/video]

These type of shows carries the flagship of typical American's propaganda of "We are the heroes, we are stronger and we will always wins", not many people know that the Americans were late for WW1 and WW2, and when they fought with the Vietnamese, they lost, LOL

This is STILL better than the bloody red army of China ! The CCP troops did NOT launch any attack at the Japanese pockets (too few and spread out). It was the hero Lin Biao who defy order and attacked the Japs. And during the cultural revolution, he was criticised and was killed - a martyr ! It was Mao who instigated (under the command of Stalin in Russia) his comrades and troops (very small, more like platoons) to keep retreating from the Japs ! They did NOT fight the Japs but colluded with them to fight the anti-fascist KMT armies led by Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek. They lied during their rein in China providing FAKE education (lies) JUST LIKE 'the man on the moon thing' ! So, there were ACTUALLY 3 Chinas (Russia, Japan, ROC) ! They did NOT fight hand in hand with the KMT to chase the Jap devils out ! Everyone in every continents were losing men and money BUT they did not (making money from poppy plants = drugs !)


THEY NEVER FOUGHT THE JAPS !!

IT'S THE ROC ARMIES THAT FOUGHT BRAVELY AND SACRIFICING MANY MEN DURING THE CONFLICT !!

INSTEAD OF FIGHTING JAPS DEVILS, THEY GANGED UP WITH THE JAPS TO FIGHT AND WEAKEN THE KMT ARMIES !! THIS WAS WHAT THEY DID DURING THOSE BLOODY YEARS !!

A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES !! JUST LIKE PAP ?

 

[Conqueror]

Shinano

The Japanese still feel a spiritual attachment to the the Yamato. It's the Yamato and not the sister ship Musashi sunk earlier off the Philippines. Below is just one of the many mammoth scale replicas found in Japanese museums.

You forgot another Yamato class - Shinano, it was described as the world biggest ship at that time.

 

[eatshitndie]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

yamato was sunk south of kyushu. musashi was sunk in the battle of leyte gulf, philippines. shinano was sunk on the way from yokosuka to kure off japan. shinano was the largest warship in ww2 sunk by a sub, but it was as large as either of her sister ships yamato and musashi, and no larger. yamato and musashi were sunk by carrier borne planes.

 

[Conqueror]

Same Class Does Not Mean Equal Tonnage

... and no larger. yamato and musashi were sunk by carrier borne planes.

By right ... the turrets and guns were replaced by decks and supporting structures, so ... there's a possibility that its tonnage and silhouette were larger instead though they used the same chassis.

 

[eatshitndie]

Re: Same Class Does Not Mean Equal Tonnage

By right ... the turrets and guns were replaced by decks and supporting structures, so ... there's a possibility that its tonnage and silhouette were larger instead though they used the same chassis.

yamato
displacement
65027 tonnes (not fully loaded)
71659 tonnes (fully loaded)
length 263m overall
beam 38.9m
draft 11m

musashi
displacement
69300 tonnes (not fully loaded)
74000 tonnes (fully loaded)
length 263m overall
beam 38.9m
draft 11m

shinano
displacement
63000 tonnes (not fully loaded)
73000 tonnes (fully loaded)
length 266m overall
beam 36.3m waterline 40m flight deck
draft 10.8m

musashi was heavier than yamato and shinano because of additional armor plating. shinano's flight deck was longer and wider than the battleship variant for obvious reasons. in terms of tonnage for size, musashi was king.

 

[red amoeba]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

i was always fascinated by Yamato. maybe shld get a Tamiya model of it soon...LOL

I am no fan of the Jap, they caused misery to Asia-Pacific for their fucking retarded blinded faith to their emperor who caused mayhem and great suffering to Asia-pacific. Just like how the terrorist twist the Islamic faith today.

And after causing such a great havoc, their emperor got away untouched. And till today, some quarters still harbor imperialist dreams.

 

[Alamaking]

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i was always fascinated by Yamato. maybe shld get a Tamiya model of it soon...LOL

This 1?

 

[sleaguepunter]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

yamato was sunk south of kyushu. musashi was sunk in the battle of leyte gulf, philippines. shinano was sunk on the way from yokosuka to kure off japan. shinano was the largest warship in ww2 sunk by a sub, but it was as large as either of her sister ships yamato and musashi, and no larger. yamato and musashi were sunk by carrier borne planes.

er... bro i think u need to recheck. i read a book on US submarine warfare during WW2, the book credit the sinking of musashi to a submarine.

Shinano was suppose to be another battleship but due to losses to jap carrier fleet that shinano was converted to a carrier. While she the biggest warship then, her plane capacity was only about 50 due to design flaw during the conversion.

 

[eatshitndie]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

er... bro i think u need to recheck. i read a book on US submarine warfare during WW2, the book credit the sinking of musashi to a submarine.

Shinano was suppose to be another battleship but due to losses to jap carrier fleet that shinano was converted to a carrier. While she the biggest warship then, her plane capacity was only about 50 due to design flaw during the conversion.

the two u.s. subs sank two of kurita's heavy cruisers, which were part of the central force sent to intercept american landing at leyte gulf. central force included 5 battleships and 10 heavy cruisers plus destroyers. yamato and musashi were part of the battleship group. kurita's flagship atago was sunk by the subs, and he transferred his flag to yamato. carrier aircraft from essex, franklin and intrepid dived bombed and torpedoed remnants of central force. aircrafts which singled out musashi aimed and torpedoed near her bow and slowed her down. captain of musashi attempted to ground her but she sank with too much damage from aircraft bombs and torpedoes. there was a loud explosion before she sank, but nobody knew if that was caused by fire raging in her magazine or a coup de grace from a sub. as there is no evidence of a sub hit, historians credit the sinking to aircrafts from the 3 carriers.

 

[sleaguepunter]

Re: I think "The Pacific " is better than the "Band of Brothers". Only watched snippe

Viewers should not compare band of brothers to the pacific as the rules of warfare for both regions were very different. BoB start with easy company of the 501st(?) of the 101st airborne division from june of 1944 till germany surrender. The pacific battle of guadalcanal start in august 1942 and end in august 1945. So the duration of the TP was much longer, that why the show cannot follow just one unit throughout the war. if i not mistaken, the Marine Corp had a regulation of rotating the troops after no more than 3 campagins. So the marines that fought with the marine 1st division at guadalcanal would have be rotated back home by 1944.

As for alamak denounce the show for white supremicst, but one must remember it the victor who wrote the history. And by the way, america govt need to motivate it troops, so it slander the japanese and japanese did themselves no favour during the nanking masscare which was widely reported in US media. In the battle of guadalcanal, the US won due to luck and screw up by both the imperial japanese army and navy. In the battle of savo island, the japanese cruisers and destroyers sunk the bulk of the defending US and Australia navy ships yet the japs sail back to base without heading to guadalcanal to destroy the invasion fleet consist mainly of merchantmens which were left behind by fletcher retreating US carriers.

As for the japanese banzai charge, i have no understanding why they able to win with this tactic against the chinese and british yet fail against the americans. Yes the amercian have the self loading M1 plus the automatic BAR but the brits also have the excellent enfield and the best LMG in WW2 the Bren. As for the chinese, they use the mauser rifle and the czech copy of the Bren. All use the much superior cartridges .303 and .306 than the japanese 6.5mm.

 

[sleaguepunter]

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Just found out the name of the book.

The Depths of Courage by Ron Smith and Flint Whitlock.

 

[johnny333]

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As for the japanese banzai charge, i have no understanding why they able to win with this tactic against the chinese and british yet fail against the americans. Yes the amercian have the self loading M1 plus the automatic BAR but the brits also have the excellent enfield and the best LMG in WW2 the Bren. As for the chinese, they use the mauser rifle and the czech copy of the Bren. All use the much superior cartridges .303 and .306 than the japanese 6.5mm.

I think the answer lies in the organisation of the marines, they are more heavily armed with more machine guns than a typical chinese squad./platoon ?

Although the chinese army was one of the largest army, it consisted mostly of ill-equipped, inadequately trained, poorly organized, and ineptly led units. Many field commanders were not allowed to act independantly and had to receive orders from above. They relied on the west for most of their equipment because China at that time was an agrarian society. The Japanese had a blockade in place which was pretty effective.

As for the Brits, they were caught totally unprepared and from what I read there was panic & the majority of troops in Malaysia were running towards Spore & not staying to fight.