Victory at Sea!

[FATCAT]

Wow, what a series. Great stuff. I just picked up the 50th aniversary edition over the weekend and have had a "Victory at Sea marathon" all week so far.



Anyone remember seing this stuff whenthey were kids?



I'm watching the Americans invading New Guinine right now.



Great music and narration are fantastic. I just saw a Jap transport take a direct hit in their power magazine or storage area ... that was one hell of an explosion.



Gotta love them old black and white WWII footage.

 

[Byershome]

I bought it a few months ago. I've been waiting for years to see it on DVD. I watched it for hours on end..... great stuff. Now I'm going to have to watch it again... ... ... ..... it'll be a late one tonight. It was a favorite show back when I was a kid... ... ... ... ... ... ... I have the vinyl soundtrack albums as well. I used to sit by the record player as a kid and listen to them hours on end. My father was career Navy ASW so it held a special place in my heart (Especially when dad was deployed) .

 

[Byershome]

By the way I was just up in the White Mountains last week seeing the sites. for the 3rd time... ... ..... it is always cloudy with intermittent rain and oh so cool It was actually clear the day I drove up Mount Washington... . though it was 31* with 50 mph wind gusts, I couldn't hardly get the wife out of the truck :-laf The daughter was game though.

 

[FATCAT]

Mt. Washington just had 38 inches of snow on Sunday/Monday this week. Most snow fall this early in a long time.



Just finished watching the Battle for Peleliu Island ... what a blood bath.

Only 6 more hours to go ... then I'll start my World at War series.

 

[RonaldLarson]

Yup

I watched it religiously as a kid, and it had the biggest influence on my joining the Navy at age 17. I own the dvd set, and consider it required watching for anyone who does not understand the sacrifices we all must make to maintain our freedoms. What a tremendously brave bunch of people we had then, and still have now! The Cindy Sheehans of the time were consumately destroyed by the press, and despised by Americans.



Ron

 

[FATCAT]

I tell ya, I had a hard time finding the VAS DVD set in stores around here. I must have went to 8 different places. A few of the book/DVD stores said that they had a teachers' discount the week before and that the VAS and World at War series were sold quite fast ... . well maybe thats a good sign here in NH that some teachers want to show their history students what it was all about and how great America is, instead of the propaganda that is primarily pushed in schools today.