Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DesertDrifter]

The Pacific was very well done, but it had a very different war story to tell. The pacific theater was so dispersed that many aspects were not as linear as in Europe. No groups were really present at all critical battles like the 101st Airborne. So it had to be told in a different way. Which they did, they had the best of the best on the project.

My last uncle that bit it at 99 from covid was kind of emblematic of it. He had a ship shot out from under him in the Atlantic, survived a very long lifeboat trip, then got reassigned to the Pacific. Drove an LST landing craft on one of the beach landings, then got reassigned again as a PT boat captain in the southern pacific. So when asked about his war experience, it was a complex story. He wrote his memoirs, but it was probably not much different than that written by a thousand others.