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Marine Sid Phillips dot com
18 Mar 2010

Bumping around the web this morning, I came across Marine Sid Phillips dot com. It looks like a Phillips family production meant to capitalize on the airing of HBO’s The Pacific. And why not? He has a book called “You’ll be SOR-RE” which is sold via his web site and Amazon for ...

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The Pacific: Around the Web
15 Mar 2010

Trolling around the net this morning, I noticed about 750 articles were available about the series (via Google News). Some highlights: HBO is offering the first episode online for a limited time.  Check here.  Registration is required. Gawker (personal reflection) the Telegraph (UK) (review) The Baltimore Sun (the books behind the show) US News and World Report (personal reflection) // ...

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The Pacific: Episode 1
14 Mar 2010

So? It?s here. Episode 1 is in the books. First impressions: man, they got just about everyone in there. Robert Leckie, Sydney Phillips, Eugene Sledge, John Basilone. The first part of the episode was a little ?jumpy? and the only reason I was able to follow the characters was that I watched ...

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The Pacific (Coming March 14, Sunday to HBO)
2 Mar 2010

Browsing through Comcast’s On Demand feature last night, I found many previews related to HBO’s The Pacific, which is set to run on Sundays through March and April, 2010 here in the US. Of note is the 8 minute airfield crossing, from Eugene Sledge’s book With the Old Breed, which is, to the say ...

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Headline: British Claim African Victory (11-6-1942)
21 Jan 2010

On a recent trip back home (from east to west), my father mentioned he had some WWII-era newspapers. “Huh,” I thought.  This is new.   And the story goes like this… They belonged to my Aunt Eliza.  She never married and  lived in a room in my grandfather’s house in Monroe, Utah, though she was living in Salt ...

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USCGC Taney
11 Jan 2010

A few weekends back, I found myself down at the harbor in Baltimore, heading for a day at the National Aquarium. I’ve written about the USS Torsk in a previous entry, but never knew much about the other boat moored behind a footbridge bridge. With the wind whipping around, and the other two ...

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Review: Brothers in Arms (Hell?s Highway)
22 Nov 2009

I recently picked up the third installment of the Brothers in Arms series (Hell’s Highway), and it did not disappoint ($17.99 at Gamestop). The Good: the one thing that separates BiA from other WW2-themed FPS’s is the gameplay. In Call of Duty (World at War) for instance, it’s pretty much you against the world.  In BiA, ...

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Review: Call of Duty: World at War
17 Oct 2009

Okay. So it took me a while to get to this, mostly because I didn’t want to play the game on a PS 2 or wii. While those systems are just fine (come on! Tiger Woods 09 with the wii motion plus is AWESOME), I wanted to experience the game in HD with a ...

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Back in the Game (thinking Call of Duty)
14 Oct 2009

HOLY COW! I can’t believe it’s been a few weeks since I’ve updated this blog. In the midst of work and an amped up family schedule, I’m not surprised. That said, I have a review coming up for the video game Call of Duty: World at War. With a new ...

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SGT. Rock (Issue #5 of 6)
6 Sep 2009

So it’s taken me a bit longer to get back to the this series than I’d hoped (long story…) The narrative arc has reached its peak, with the 442 breaking through to the Lost Battalion. SGT Rock only has a few lines in this issue, and honestly, he’s sort of lost in the ...

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