And no parachute, because you couldn’t fit one in there. There’s some fucking horror stories. 

I’ve said my piece ✋😤🤚

Gotta admit, I never looked at shoelaces the same way again after this.

to be fair, handwaving “I could go on” would be a classic Paulie trait.

Tony nearly killed him for literally no reason.  He’s really annoying.  Like Kinja.

What’s funny, and it’s kind of talked about in the article, listening to Rob Iler and Jaime Lynn-Sigler’s podcast he wasn’t really acting so much as that is more or less exactly what the guy was like in real life.

While Paulie is an all-timer character/performance (my favorite Paulie moment is his silent glower as he’s racing to Chrissy’s house to do donuts on the lawn), it does feel like a rare synthesis of great writing and an actor who is a genuine character.

Are you seriously confused as to why a war that killed 400,000 Americans gets more attention than ones that killed 6000 combined? World War II is the largest military conflict in history, and the world was a completely different place after it was over. Not only that, but I’d think the potential trauma of it was in…

That plane from Godzilla Minus One with the rear-mounted propeller is a real thing, though the war ended before they could be used and the filmmakers had to get a new one made from the blueprints.

My grandfather flew PBYs in the Pacific Theater. recon, search and rescue and anti submarine. He talked about his service a lot he did 30 years, but never much about his flying days.

Ambrose in general was a pretty sloppy writer who has been shown to have committed cases of plagiarism in at least six of his books and in his doctoral dissertation. And he’s made some glaring factual errors in some of them apparently because he misread his sources. Still, I get why he was popular — he wrote well and…

No Avatar: The Way of Spanfeller

To be fair, “slogging through mud again, but on a different island” is pretty much what the Pacific theater was. 

Yeah me too about the avatars. No Avatar: The Last Kinjabender.

The turret actually had a “computing” gunsight and during combat you were supposed to dial in the wingspan of the plane you were tracking and it determined the best firing solution. Unfortunately, it was almost impossible to use in real life, so my father just kept the dial at an average wingspan of all the German…

The one story my grandfather ever did tell was that he was hit in the arm by anti-aircraft fire, and kept the removed fragments in the same box with his Purple Heart. Since it happened in December, he called them “Hitler’s Christmas present.”

Yeah my grandfather flew a C-47 back and forth on D-Day plus one, and absolutely refused to talk about it beyond superficial details. Loved to talk about his time in pilot training though

There is an excellent video on YouTube detailing how it didn’t make nearly as much money with home media sales as Band of Brothers. The Pacific cost more to produce and ended up being barely profitable. I understand why HBO was apprehensive about another WWII series with an even higher budget.

My great uncle was a ball turret gunner in the belly of a B-17 (Sean Astin’s spot in Memphis Belle). He didn’t particularly care to discuss it either, I’m sure not least because it was pants-shittingly terrifying being exposed down there like that every time a German fighter came up from below. I finally saw one of…

I’m glad this is getting good reviews, because the first trailer really dampened my enthusiasm. It made it look very glossy, with all the stars giving action movie-esque poses. Absolutely loved Band of Brothers, so now I’m hopeful that this will live up to that.