Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are heading back to World War II on HBO for a third time. The mini will follow the “bomber boys” of the Eighth Air Force, who were based in England and fought in the air war against Germany.

http://www.slashfilm.com/steven-spielberg-and-tom-hanks-secure-source-material-for-their-third-world-war-ii-set-hbo-miniseries/

pacific was ridiculously well made but imo it didn't develop individual characters as well as BoB. snafu was awesome but you didn't have a bunch of favourites like gonorrhea, buck, shifty, bull that you grew as attached to.

Band of Brother shat all over Pacific. This is gonna be awesome.

It will be Memphis Belle meets Red Tails but with all the cast dieing.


and another "how the USA won the war" bs series.


Band of Brothers was a Stephen Ambrose bs book which strayed from fact so much I couldn't tell if water was running up hill or down.

In the interim watch this;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pvbds

available from MVGroup.

If you're looking for something nice to fill the gap while waiting check out Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States. There's 10 eps out at the moment and it starts off back in WW2. Werth watching.

Viper, the Ruskies won ww2.

The US won the aftermath of ww2.

After France fell, the Nazi's had like 30 divisions on the western front and 200 on the eastern front.

The scale of the some of the eastern front battles is insane. The battle of Kursk saw the death of ~1m men and around 10,000 tanks and armor in the space of a month.

The 'other' eastern front was in China. The Chinese lost 3-4 million soldiers and 10-20 million civilians to the Japanese who committed terrible atrocities against civilians. Had China not kept Japan busy the Soviet Union would have been fighting a war on two fronts.

The Yanks won the pacific, not convinced they won Europe. Like hell Japan were gonna keep on fighting.

HBO should do a Vietnam band of brothers with Hanks and Spielberg.

Hey HurricaneJim, Is that a documentary or a drama/series? If its a documentary I will be all over it.

Even today we are still uncovering new things about WW2.
Russia defeated the Nazis though Hollywood has created a patriotic version of WW2 focussed on American greatness and The Holocaust.
We all know that Spielberg will trot out the Hollywood version of WW2 yet again

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