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Feinder -> (1/16/2003 12:29:18 PM)
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Also, if you have opportunity to park yourself in front of the History Channel, there's always a documentary on about the Pacific war.
A seriers that may be available for rent, is the old "Victory At Sea" (c1960). It's kinda hokey, as in, very "Rah! Rah!" kind of stuff (the narrator even sounds like hes doing a newsreel), but it does a fair job of at least telling quick stories of the various battles (Pacific, Atlantic and Med).
Unfortunatly, accurate war movies usually pretty rare, and have only bee cropping up in quantity and quality recently. As far as quality, I'd recommend "Wind Talkers". It's not really accurate from a purely factual stand-point, but it does accurately portray atmosphere and attitude.
Essentially, the US Pacific forces used Navajo indians to transmit coded messages in the Pacific theater (the were actually called code talkers, but that sounded boring to HollyWood, so they changed it to Wind Talkers). Many Japanese officers had been could speak English (unlike most Americans who couldn't make anything out of Japanese). So US radio intercepts by the Japanese (who could understand them if in English) would certainly be bad thing. The solution was to tap the Navajos whose language even has it's own roots (it's not based on Latin or Germanic or Slavic). And considering that that there were so few Navajos anyways, the Japanese had no chance of understanding what the code talkers were saying.
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