I've been DVR'ing History Channel's "World Wars." I had hopes from the previews.
O.M.G.
I can't get past a slovenly Captain Patton using a not-yet-invented machine gun (with the frickin' plate glass windshield up on the car), after having failed to drop a Villista with his trusty Lee-Enfield, followed by the Enfield and Spanish Mauser using Germans, while Hitler lovingly slides his WWII version of the M1905 (the M1 bayonet) bayonet on his Springfield rifle, before he drops it after getting blown down by artillery and then is not shot by the British private who had drawn a bead on him with his un-cocked/unloaded Springfield '03... of course the Brit didn't shoot him. He couldn't. And that's just the first 15 minutes. But the Grant tanks assaulting German trenches in France in 1918, and the B-17s lifting from French airfields to smash London during the Battle of Britain.... Well, that was okay. I expect that from History Channel.
And historian David Brinkley beclowning himself nattering on, and Senator McCain asserting that Patton was an egotist... What McCain is doing talking pre-WWI combat, I dunno. Carrier warfare, POW issues, bombing stuff, sure. Patton and a machine-gun troop, not so much.
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May 29 2014, 08:45 AM
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