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The Pacific: Around the Web

Monday, March 15, 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 […]

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The Pacific: Episode 1

Sunday, March 14, 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 on the previews […]

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The Pacific (Coming March 14, Sunday to HBO)

Tuesday, March 2, 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 the […]

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The Pacific War, #15

Friday, March 21, 2008

I’ve been a little slack in keeping up with the filming of the Pacific War series.  Checking in at Dale Dye’s web site, he states that the production is in its 35th week, with a entry called “Surviving the surviving on Peleliu.”  So check that here. Poking around IMDB this afternoon, I’d forgotten about some casting choices.  Eugene […]

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The Pacific War, #14

Sunday, October 7, 2007

So what do you do when you have no time for anything but work but feel like a post is due? Link to Dale Dye. That’s what you do. His weekly update is as interesting as ever. I’m particularly impressed with our plans to demonstrate Platoon Sergeant Basilone’s heroics in the fighting on 23-25 October […]

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Eugene Sledge

Monday, October 1, 2007

For you folks surfing in looking for Eugene Sledge info, check this review of his book, With the Old Breed-At Peleliu and Okinawa. It’s a shameless plug to a review by a pretty talented writer at the DB. Enjoy. Additionally, I took this photo at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in VA a […]

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The Pacific War, #13

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Saturday, 29 September 2007 If this were a literature course and we were studying the old Freytag pyramid, I’d say this latest entry constitutes some significant rising action. We’ve had a little exposition and are moving steadily toward the climax (though I think we have a ways to go), falling action, and denouement of the […]

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The Pacific War, #12

Monday, September 24, 2007

Dateline: September 22, 2007 More from Dale Dye on the product of the work taking place now… In some of the most spectacular and stirring sequences I have ever seen put on film, we landed on the Orange and White Beaches of Peleliu last week. Much of what I saw on those bitterly opposed landing […]

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The Pacific War, #11

Monday, September 17, 2007

Dale Dye’s update this week is pretty amazing. It sounds as if the production is right in the thick of it all, specifically the “Peleliu invasion which took place in September 1944, 53 years ago almost to the day,” Dye writes. There is more, about Eugene Sledge: Late last week, we loaded up PFC Eugene […]

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The Pacific War, #10

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

TexasNick over the PacificFans.com forum (now defunct) posted a real gem on this web site recently. They are set photos from the Pacific War series, the first I’ve seen outside of a recent news article. The photos are hosted via flickr under the name of Rens Spanjaard, and the text is dutch, at least according […]

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