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    The Pacific - Finally

    Only 50 minutes long left us hanging, You would enjoy it more if you watched 2-4 episodes in a row. Identifing characters during gun fights is difficult. I am trying my best not to compare to BOBrothers. The Pacific theme song is not as inspiring as BOB's. However The Pacific is worth the wate...
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    Redding Airshow 2009 reminder

    thanks!
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    Redding Airshow 2009 reminder

    Does anyone have information on any scheduled 2010 airshows that are north of the state of New York.:!:
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    D Day

    Sometimes I feel I was born in the wrong time. You hear this all the time but the feelings are true for myself. Or perhaps it is that I admire the purpose of an ordinary man performing his task at hand and not realizing that at the time he was performing one of the most courageous things a...
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    D Day

    I can not believe the amount of people who does not even have a remote idea of when and what D-DAY was about. I am almost ashamed of the people I hold dear to me. My children will not be so un-educated.
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    Favorite WWII Movie

    Enemy at the Gates was the best movie on this list, however Band Of Brothers is my favorite mini-series, movie, tv show , or anything on TV ever, but i agree with Gnomey, it is not suited for this category. I now realize I have some catching up to do as I never seen over half of the movies...
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    When did you first become interested in Warbirds?

    When I was 8-9 yrs old I would doodle WWII fighter planes on my books. I guess this is when I first became interested in warbirds. Later when I was older and read more into Canadians in WWII, I discovered how many perished in Lancasters bombers, even when they knew how bad the odds were for a...
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    Any P-38 fans out there?

    The P-38 appears to be a display of the great success the USA had developed during the WWII period in attempting to design planes in bold different designs. The P-38 was a truely remarkable fighter that has always intrigued myself on how any pilot could feel safe in combat with a design that...
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