HBO's series "Band of Brothers"

[spectr17]

Anybody watch HBO's series "Band of Brothers?" It's about the newly formed 506th infantry paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne who jumped into France on D-Day. Easy Company, as they are called, is the main group in the series. They do some of their training at Fort Mackall Georgia, which is where the SF troops still train today.

The show has pretty good special effects to make it look and sound like you are in the action, which is typical ######Steven Spielberg directing.

In the jump though, it looked like the actors jumped off chairs when they landed, those were some of the softest PLFs I've ever seen. The other hokey part was right after the 2 soldiers are on the ground they're walking around talking in a normal voice with German soldiers everywhere. They cover their lights up with a poncho to read maps (light discipline), but they walk around like that with no noise discipline?

They do some interviews with the real soldiers who actually did the jump and fought across Europe which is really kewl during the intermission.

Part II is Sunday 9pm PST/ 8 central on HBO.

http://www.hbo.com/band/landing/day_of_days.html

http://www.bandofbrothers.com/

[Blacktail Buck]

I watched it, so far so good, can't wait for the next episode.

[BigDog]

If you squint your eyes so you don't see the fine points, it is pretty good so far. I also caught a couple gafs.
Early in the program, they were in boot camp and being worked very hard running hills. Not one person had a wet t shirt. Many were supposedly on the verge of exhaustion and nobody was sweating.
When the jump planes were taking off for the invasion, they flew over an anti aircraft emplacement. The guys there were looking up and watching all of the planes go over their heads. Problem is that above the planes, the sky was full of jet vapor trails. Ooops.

[Passthru]

######Damn fine show regardless.
######I had 5 uncles in that war and one was in France,not airborne though,he told me he walked around for a week lost and hiding before he found other US troops.of course none will tell what happened just funny things that happened to them outside of battle.