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11-09-2023, 06:51 PM | #1 |
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A few months ago, I was on a YouTube kick watching videos about the Pacific aircraft carrier battles of WWII.
Pretty crazy stuff.
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11-09-2023, 07:56 PM | #2 |
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BOB was AWESOME! PACIFIC, Meh - I hope they nail this one!
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11-10-2023, 10:10 AM | #3 |
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From the looks of the trailer, it looks like they nailed it.
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12-07-2023, 02:46 PM | #4 |
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The Pacific was hardly "meh." While it wasn't as good as BoB, it was still awesome. Because it focused on the combat and non-combat experiences of three individual soldiers from different units rather than the men of a single company, it lacked the cohesiveness and didn't have quite the action content of BoB. But all those stories were still interesting.
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12-07-2023, 03:28 PM | #6 | |
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I would have much rather fought in Europe than the Pacific. |
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12-07-2023, 04:58 PM | #7 |
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12-07-2023, 05:23 PM | #8 | |
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I suppose, but as has been said by someone with far more historical knowledge and combat experience than me-- the deadliest battle is the one you're currently in. Who can say Tarawa was worse than Omaha Beach? The fact that 8 of 11 Germans who died in WWII were killed by the Russians certainly helped the Allies, but the U.S. still lost more than twice the number of troops in Europe in a shorter amount of total time than we did in the Pacific. A couple of months ago I posted a fact re: the air war over Europe; more Army Air Corps soldiers were killed in action over the skies of Europe than the entire Marine Corps during the war. Was the air war more of a meat-grinder than the Pacific theater? If you go by pure number of casualties, it certainly was. Anyway. I didn't mean to come off like a dick. If we were drinking beers around a fire, you'd know by my tone of voice I'm just making conversation. I'm looking forward to this too. |
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12-07-2023, 08:56 PM | #9 | |
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Sure, more people died in the European theater. More people fought there. And those bombers conducting daylight raids were deathtraps. But who would you rather face in combat; Germans or Japanese? |
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11-10-2023, 10:09 AM | #10 |
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OP updated with the fantastic trailer released this week.
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12-07-2023, 12:08 PM | #12 |
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12-07-2023, 10:17 PM | #13 | |
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P-38 and p-47 were my planes I loved. Also had soft spot for P-40. On American side.
Germans FW-190, and ME-262 British Spitrefire mk9 was a beast
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12-08-2023, 01:02 PM | #14 | |
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Spitfire was my favorite as a kid, then the P-51D Mustang, and then the F4U Corsair. Was also a big fan of the F6 Hellcat. In the early '90s there was a WWII air combat sim game called 'AirWarrior,' that I played for awhile, which featured 'realistic' aerodynamics and performance parameters for each aircraft. So, for example, if you tried to hold a max rate flat turn in any plane, it'd quickly lose enough AS to stall, usually resulting in a spin. The Corsair would flip over into an upside-down flat spin, true to the actual plane's tendencies. I quickly learned the advantages/disadvantages between stall fighters and E fighters, and why planes like the Mustang and the Corsair were so feared by Axis pilots.
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12-11-2023, 07:13 PM | #15 | |
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Anyway, plenty of P51's and such, but there was a Corsair that just looked and sounded so badass. Was always fond of the Corsair after that day. |
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