The first segment aired last night, but unfortunately, I didn't get to see it because I don't have HBO. Guess I'll have to wait awhile until the History Channel or somebody picks it up.
The Battle of Peleliu will be featured in about a quarter of the series (about two and a half hours). After reading a little more about it, I'd have to say that it is about time people learned about it. The fighting was intense to say the least.
It sounds like the battlefield there was frozen in time and executive producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman found it "a convenient place to show the horror of battle as experienced by the real-life Marines whose stories they are telling."
The Pacific Theater is described as being "unglamorous, mind-wrenching mire" and "on the other side of the world, on tropical archipelagoes with names nobody knew, for purposes that often seemed pointless...."
Tom Hanks, a long-time military buff put it well when he said, "You're fighting for nowhere in the middle of nowhere."
March 7th Chicago Tribune.
As We Continue to Lose the Greatest Generation. --Cooter
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