BoB will forever be my favorite series, of any kind. I dont know how many times I've seen it, but usually end up watching the whole thing every year or two. Just watched it this past fall with my 16 year old.

The scene, I think in episode two, when Malarkey runs into the German soldier, who grew up near him, but went back to help the homeland before the US had entered the war...only for Malarkey to see him put to death 5 seconds after their conversation ended. That always gets me for various reasons.

Seeing the actual interviews before each episode always gets me too. When the old man says that maybe in another time and place he'd have been best friends with the boys he had to kill....man, what a thing to reconcile.

And I always feel a gut punch, as the series ends. Seeing Nixon talk to Winters about taking a job with his family on the Dock. Seeing them play baseball and describing their post-war lives. What a complete contrast to the world around them and what they'd gone through. It must have been such an odd thing to start dreaming of their post-war life.


I just started the first couple episodes of Masters of the Air, and enjoy it. My wife had two grandfathers who flew in the war, and it gives me an entirely new perspective. A couple scenes have already put visuals to some of the stories one of them told me.

I've never watched The Pacific, but will do that this year.

Just binged The Pacific, wow, incredible.

Just finished BoB with the wife. First time. It should be mandatory viewing in this country.

I've seen it 100s of times, but still get sucked in. I sat down to test some surround sound settings the other day and pulled up "Day of Days" to test. I was in the middle of "Crossroads" before I got up.

My grandfather was in the 506-Fox Company. He never talked much about the war when I was younger and I regret not asking him about it more before he passed. He once said he had never been as cold as he was in Bastogne and if he never saw snow again, it would still be too soon. He spent the rest of his life in southern Louisiana and coastal Mississippi lol. I still have some of his medals and part of his parachute he brought home for my grandmother.