Battle Ground - Southwest Pacific DVD

Advantages: dramatic recount of dog fights
Disadvantages: none for me

...AIR BATTLES OF WORLD WAR TWO This DVD is another great documentation from battles fought in world war 2. This DVD features some dramatic dog fights over Britain, fought between British and German pilots during the Battle of Britain. And the Japanese Zeros versus the American Hellcats and corsairs over the pacific. And the USAAF raid on the ploesti oilfields in Romania. The DVD contains an Interactive menu, scene selection, previews on other war files titles. Having had family who fought in WWII it fascinates me to see the kinds of things that they had to go through. It is great being able to learn more about our history, as during my whole time in school all of our history studies revolved around Russia and Germany. Which even then just did not seem to make sense to me. And so I embarked on my journey of learning about it on my own... Read review

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Advantages: I cant think of any
Disadvantages: Too many factual discrpeancies.

...Pearl Harbour the war tale of the Japanese air strike on the American Pacific port of Pearl Harbour. In the film the main story is a love story between a woman and a naval officer and their fight to stay together, this really spoils the film. This film had a huge budget to make the film and with this you should think that the movie should turn out half decent. With only 117 factual discrepancies it hasnt turned out that bad than has it. The tale of Pearl Harbour would have been just fine without the stupid love story but with this love story that main plot of the real tale is sum what distorted. The movie had a huge premier inside a battle ship with all these stars, what justification is there to spend all of that money when there are people starving to death in Africa how can they justify spending a huge sum of money to launch... Read review

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Advantages: Shows Human Conflict from both sides
Disadvantages: The Horrors of War....

...forbid they had to pay out of their own pockets)….. "Flags" is the story of what happened from the American point of view, in the Battle of Iwo Jima, and how the Americans considered it such a victory….. But a victory at what cost is the question I was left asking myself ?? So many people lost their lives in that conflict, all about an island in the Pacific Ocean…… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Let ters from~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Iwo Jima~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Letters" is the story about the Battle through the eyes of the Japanese. It tells of the horrors that the Japanese soldiers went through, killing themselves when they knew that defeat stared them... Read review

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