This 1941 movie was filmed with members of the 501st Parachute Battalion performing the actual jump scenes. It is a pre-Pearl Harbor propaganda film about young Americans, from various social backgrounds, who undergo parachute training at Fort Benning prior to … Continue reading →
I got this dvd from eBay recently and I enjoyed it a lot. It’s an old TV movie from 1986 and quite unknown compared to the legendary Patton movie from 1970, although George C. Scott plays general Patton in both. … Continue reading →
Fury with Brad Pitt is coming out in theaters this week. I had heard about this movie being produced through Combat Dealers on Discovery Channel. This guy Bruce Compton gets called that the production people are interested in using his … Continue reading →
George Clooney directed this new WW2 movie coming to theaters in the US on March 12. IMDB listed it as a story about a US platoon tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. … Continue reading →
My son is now hooked on YouTube and showed me this stop-motion movie of WW2 Lego paratroopers. Really well done. Just think of the time that must have gone into making it. The video I posted originally is no longer … Continue reading →
I got this dvd a long time ago and it’s been sitting on a shelf, unwatched. A shame really, because it’s really interesting. The bonus material also includes footage from preparations for D-Day in England and footage from Normandy. It’s … Continue reading →
‘Pathfinders – In the Company of Strangers’ is a movie from earlier this year and now released on DVD. I hadn’t heard about it, but when I saw it on display at the bookstore, it looked interesting. Pathfinders and their … Continue reading →
This summer I was on vacation in Oxfordshire, England. During WW2, this is where the 506th PIR “Easy Company” was billeted at the village of Aldbourne. For the series Band of Brothers, Steven Spielberg used the village of Hambleden for … Continue reading →
This week saw the start of the long awaited new 10-part series The Pacific on HBO, also known as ‘Band of Brothers – Pacific’ at Prime TV in Belgium, only 2 weeks after the start of the series in the … Continue reading →
I got this DVD for my birthday and only just watched it this past weekend. The title and description were promising: something with British paratroopers in a secret WW2 operation. But the movie sucks every way you look at it. … Continue reading →