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The Pacific Part 1 Watch Along (Patreon)

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2024-01-09 17:00:05
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And it has begun!

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THE PACIFIC PART 1 Watch Along

Jumping into The Pacific Mini Series BUCKLE UP

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Stephen Knueppel

Weirdly all the veteran interviews are missing from the show on Max in America. You have about 3 minutes of content that most of your viewers are going to be missing. The same for Netflix apparently. Very disappointed that this has been done to the series. They are an extra content feature on the Blu-ray sets. Makes it difficult to sync up with you.

Frankie H

The guy with the heart murmur was the kid in the original Jurassic Park. Also I love the build up of tension of the beach landing, but then everything is fine. One of the Lieutenants giving orders was in John Wick 1, he was one of the friends of the awful son. He was also great in Daredevil as Fisk's loyal assistant. The navy battle that the US lost as the marines watched from the shore was called "The Battle of Savo Island." There's some great youtube videos about it. It was an embarrassing defeat for the American navy.

Bubba Fett

The instant start is part of what makes this one different. BoB was less than a full year, Dday june 44 to Germanys surrender in May 45. This being summer 1942 when Guadalcanal happened, the BoB people probably hadn't even started training yet. Normandy is still 2 years away at this point. With BoB it's easy to forget while they were training in Georgia, US and Brittian were still fighting to push Germans out of Africa, then Sicily, then Italy all the while Island hopping was happening in pacific. A good pearl harbor movie for you. Not pearl harbor naturally lol, but Tora Tora Tora, gives a good lead up in the months to it from the both US and Japanese perspectives. Sort of how and why we got there and how the attack was planned and carried out.

Stephen Knueppel

The Japanese Army was heavily committed in China as was most of the Japanese Army Air force. They had been at war there since 1937. The Americans faced mainly The Imperial Japanese Naval and Air Forces with a small number of Army Divisions. With that Japan was trying to hold all the new conquests they had made in the first 6 months of the war including all the central Pacific islands, the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, and most of New Guinea. Their strategy was to make us lose so many men retaking everything that we would grow tired of the bloodshed and negotiate a peace that would let them keep most of their conquests. They knew that they could never beat the USA or invade our mainland so they were fighting for a stalemate basically. At Guadalcanal neither side committed enough troops to win quickly but just kept feeding more men into it over time so the battle dragged on for months. Japanese Naval ships shelled the Marines at night almost at will and Japanese aircraft bombed during the day. America didn't gain control of the air or water around the island for the first few months.

Baron Imhoof

With apologies for the length… I don’t know if it’s a deal between HBO and Crave in Canada or something about Max versus the original on HBO, or if it has something to do with my sparkling personality, but… when I first watched it during its initial broadcast back in 2010, it had that opening segment with the bombers, then the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Tom Hanks narration on the Japanese advance to Guadalcanal and ending with the veterans… it was all there, I remember seeing it, and I’ve seen it since when I rewatched it. But today, when I opened it in HBO Max, all that was gone, and it begins with the charcoal drawing intro. It makes for about a three minute difference between you and the series. It’s easy enough to synch when you get to the intro and we see the charcoal pencil, but it was very confusing at first. I don’t understand why HBO or Max or whoever would have made that cut. Beyond that, what I like about the series is that it depicts vividly the fact that the Pacific and Europe were almost two different wars. Band of Brothers was about one company of airborne troops, but their path was fairly representative of the path taken by all American troops in Europe: get ashore or inland, then East to Paris, across the Rhine, and into Germany, all on land. In the Pacific, it was almost all D-Day/Omaha Beach-style invasions, such as in Saving Private Ryan, and the navy remained critical in every battle. Additionally, and (I think) most importantly, it depicts the differences in the enemy that American troops faced. As barbaric as the Nazis were, the fanaticism of the Japanese soldier, their military leaders and government, and the nation as a whole was unmatched. That’s not to say all Japanese were fanatics, but this series, more than most depictions, really nails that difference between what our boys faced in Europe and what they faced against the Japanese. Another difference is that Hitler began the war in Europe in 1939, but by the time they attacked Pearl Harbor, Japan had been in a constant state of war since they invaded Manchuria then China a decade earlier. As you will see, having to go into battle against an enemy with that kind of fanaticism and experience made the Marine Corps’ job particularly brutal. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

John Thomas

As mentioned above the beginning sequences are cut out, but I'm glad you are watching them because it gives you context about what is going on as a whole. I did appreciate you unblurring the screen when the chalk drawing began, that let me know where to start. The Pacific follows three Marine Divisions, I think, and the different island campaigns that each fought on, with two of them here on Guadalcanal. Some army units also fought on these islands but primarily the Marines are featured. Glad you are watching and love following along.

Hold Down A

Do you guys want me to take the time code off and keep the box unblurred longer at the beginning after the chalk intro???

John Courtright

The introductory narration including veteran interviews are at https://youtu.be/PzZnLNCCsXI?si=BZyatKogPw1n0t45 (thanks Bubba) Time stamps for each episode are: "Guadalcanal/Leckie" 0:00 "Basilone" 2:12 "Melbourne" 4:55 "Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika" 7:14 "Peleliu Landing" 9:43 "Peleliu Airfield" 12:19 "Peleliu Hills" 14:20 "Iwo Jima" 16:35 "Okinawa" 19:09 "Home" 21:08

John Courtright

After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the wave of enlistments by young men into all branches of the U.S. military was truly staggering. It was a crushing blow for a young man to be declared "4-F" unfit. 4-F is a U.S. Selective Service System classification identifying a person as unfit for military service, usually for a medical reason, such as Eugene Sledge's heart murmur in this episode. "4-F" was also mentioned in the film Hacksaw Ridge, "There were two men in my hometown declared 4-F unfit; they killed themselves 'cause they couldn't serve" and in It's a Wonderful Life, "George... 4-F on account of his ear, George fought the battle of Bedford Falls". It is extremely tragic that some young men would take their own lives rather than choosing to support the war effort in non-combat roles.

Jason Nicol

Great reaction to episode 1! I loved it when you said everyone and their dog has warned you about the brutality of this series. We are all just looking out for you. Lastly, did you expect to get a proper global history lesson watching BoB and The Pacific? People (like me) tend to want to share the context of what is happening and there is so much going on, involving so many different elements, that we all would like to share our insights to guide you along. It all comes from a good place.

Hold Down A

Ok so I re edited part 2 coming up and will the rest. On mine I get “previously on” and the veteran intros. SO I have unblurred the box at the beginning of the chalk opening credits and then for the title PART “2” and just a bit after so we can get a better sync and took off the timer! HOPE this helps and will get Part 1 re edited as soon as possible!

Clay F

This was a more rich experience watching the episode with your reaction. Thx. Moreover, I can tell you are focusing. You remembered Eugene. Lastly, you seem more aware compared to when reacting to BoB episode 1. Previously watching Saving Private Ryan, BoB, and Hacksaw Ridge may make you more wary but also seemingly more familiar with the war genre broadly. Robert Leckie: "Maybe I'll write to you." Vera Keller: "Alright." "The jungle holds both beauty and terror in its depths, most terrible of which is man."

Jim Finley

Great reaction - as you said, it's the emotions and the impacts on the people that are the most important part. A note on the nuclear weapons: the only nuclear weapons used in World War II were the two that the U.S. dropped on Japan to end the war, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bomb didn't exist until a few months before the end of the war. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as their attacks on the many other places Colonel Chesty Puller counted off to his NCOs, used non-nuclear bombs and torpedoes. It was devastating enough anyway - at Pearl Harbor more than 2,400 people were killed - but things got much worse as the war went on. Near the end, when Japan refused to quit fighting, the U.S. had firebombed just about every city in the Japanese home islands; the firebombing of Tokyo killed about 100,000 residents, in order to destroy war industries that were still making more aircraft and other weapons and to disrupt their workforce by making them homeless. The Japanese had carried out incredibly brutal military attacks and massacred millions of civilians in the territories they conquered. and they murdered tens of thousands of POWs - it was an utterly savage war. Also, none of the fighting, except the aerial bombing, was actually in Japan. So we were fighting the Japanese, but it was all in territory they had attacked and overrun. My stepfather was in the Navy in World War II, and his ship was in the western Pacific at the end. The existence of the atomic bomb was still a highly classified secret, and the armed forces were planning for the invasion of the Japanese home islands, since the Japanese refused to even talk about giving up. They had fought maniacally to hold onto all the lands they had conquered, and everyone knew that they would fight even harder for their own land. They were training old people, women, and children to attack invading troops with spears if they didn't have firearms. Image that scene on the Alligator River where the Japanese army tried to cross and were cut down by the Marines' machine guns, except make it with the attackers being children with pointed sticks. That was their plan. The Allies expected to lose a million mostly American soldiers taking Japan, and the Japanese dead would have been tens of millions. My stepfather's small ship had their job assigned for that invasion - they were supposed to drop anchor less than a mile offshore at one of the invasion beaches and act as a guide point for the landing craft heading in. The Japanese had a lot of coastal defense artillery, and the men on his ship knew they wouldn't last fifteen minutes after they dropped anchor. He said that it was strange - every person on the ship knew the day and the hour when he was going to die. Then they dropped the two bombs, and the Russians started attacking the Japanese forces on the Asian mainland, and Japan surrendered. My stepdad said that after already having accepted that they were dead, they had been given back the rest of their lives. He was 22. The two atomic bombs killed a couple of hundred thousand Japanese civilians, an utter horror we have to avoid repeating. But they avoided an invasion that would have killed a hundred times as many. A final point on military stuff: I know the ranks are confusing - my wife and I have been married over 20 years and it still baffles her sometimes - but the man making the speech at the beginning was not a "sergeant dude." He was a lieutenant colonel, which is literally 13 ranks higher than sergeant - to put it another way, he was in charge of about 1,500 Marines, and a sergeant would be in charge of maybe a dozen. That was LtCol. "Chesty" Puller, a legend in the Marine Corps (to this day, when recruits in boot camp are about to go to sleep, their drill instructors have them call out in unison, "Good night, Chesty, wherever you are!") Thank you for doing this series on the Marine Corps! This is my branch of the military (I was in for twenty years) and have always wished people would pay more attention to the history of this half of World War II. This miniseries also does a good job of capturing some of the flavor of the Marine Corps subculture as compared with that of the Army as seen in Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. I look forward, when you've watched this whole miniseries, to hearing your thoughts about similarities and differences between The Pacific and Band of Brothers. Additional recommendation, maybe for side viewing: if you want to get a really good rounded picture of how World War II affected the U.S. and allies - people in uniform, their families, civilians in general, abroad and at home - you would love the Ken Burns documentary miniseries, "The War." While a lot of them were still around, he interviewed veterans and their loved ones in four communities in different parts of the country, and combined that with contemporary journalism, the troops' letters home, newsreel footage, and narration to tell the story from just before the U.S. entry into the war to just after its end, in seven episodes each about the length of a short movie.

Florin Ispas

they have a very strange relationship, you will see in the last episode.

Hold Down A

I did for sure mis speak when i said nucs on pearl harbour. I did know the first nuc was in Japan. whoopssssss