Excellent WW2 Pacific aviation documentary

[wheelgun_man]

I'm only 20 minutes into it myself, but it is so good, I wanted to share with you. Most of them are gone now. I love to hear their stories. Reminds me of after-dinner Christmas Eve gatherings when I was about 10, listening to my dad and my two uncles talking about some of the things that happened to them during their time in the Pacific and Europe.

 

[Friday]

I'm a total documentary nerd. I love em. I find most of them enthralling.
I'm gonna have to look into this one. My Uncle Don was a Major in the Army Air Corp and flew B-24's in the Pacific theatre.

 

[Chdamn]

I'm a total documentary nerd. I love em. I find most of them enthralling.
I'm gonna have to look into this one. My Uncle Don was a Major in the Army Air Corp and flew B-24's in the Pacific theatre.

Same. I just watched one about a murder in a town of 11 (now 10) people in the outback of Australia. I was riveted.

 

[Sleipnir]

I grew up surrounded by adults who were WWII vets. They never talked about that time. My father spent two years in the southwest Pacific and until I found a small, terse diary that he kept I knew nothing about what he had seen. Thanks to the internet I have been able to learn a lot more.

 

[Chuckman]

My uncle was an engineer, first for the AAC, then later in the war the 101st airborne. He never talked about it until very late in life, and then just a little. Same with my mom's cousin who retired from the army in the 60s and had spent time in Korea and VN, too. He talked about those, but not Europe in WW2.

 

[wheelgun_man]

I grew up surrounded by adults who were WWII vets. They never talked about that time. My father spent two years in the southwest Pacific and until I found a small, terse diary that he kept I knew nothing about what he had seen. Thanks to the internet I have been able to learn a lot more.

My uncle was an engineer, first for the AAC, then later in the war the 101st airborne. He never talked about it until very late in life, and then just a little. Same with my mom's cousin who retired from the army in the 60s and had spent time in Korea and VN, too. He talked about those, but not Europe in WW2.

My experience was the same. The stories they would swap were either quite brief and general in nature ("it was so cold I had to pee on my rifle to unfreeze it", or, "we'd use the .50's in the nose of the bomber to aim the cannon.") or would be the "funny" or more light-hearted tales of military life. My uncle, who was in the Battle of the Bulge, opened up late in life to his grand-daughters. My cousin was able to learn much from those brief interactions, including how a simple twist of fate involving the kindness and bravery of a Belgian farm family saving his life made it possible for her to be here today...

 

[Sp00ks]

That was good.