Pathfinders - awful movie

[Sunray]

I watched about 20 minutes of what was potentially a good story - the pre-D Day Pathfinders who dropped into Normandy on the eve of the invasion to set up radio homing beacons on the DZs.

It was a miserable movie on a budget- shot in the USA,  and a few historical blunders.  The Overlord stripes wrong on the DC3s, and the US airborne in uniforms resembling Denison smocks!

I assume this is the film makes simply not doing the research. 

Very disappointing when one has seen and appreciated Band of Brothers.

[rexhurley]

Watch "Pacific" mate same gene and production as BoB's just set with the Marines in the pacific form end to end brilliant I missed one episode so watched it online and just about ripped my head off due to the headphone lead when I leapt back from the screen with one Okinawa screen totally realisitic you wont be disappointed with that one

[FierceKitty]

Hands up, those who needed RDF to make it to the end of the above sentence!

[Sunray]

Watch "Pacific" mate same gene and production as BoB's just set with the Marines in the pacific form end to end brilliant I missed one episode so watched it online and just about ripped my head off due to the headphone lead when I leapt back from the screen with one Okinawa screen totally realisitic you wont be disappointed with that one

Agreed.  It is raw realistic footage.   I would also argue that the series stimulated  a new interest in that theatre and the popularity of Pendraken's  excellent "Marine" range.   

I personally think it is good not to romance and sanitise combat. Very few get a clean quick death. Modern combat is a traumatic experience.  The only "action" I want to encourage is with a dice.

[FierceKitty]

If I ever have to go into military combat, I certainly hope it's not my usual die that is rolled to resolve my fate!

[Ithoriel]

If I ever have to go into military combat, I certainly hope it's not my usual die that is rolled to resolve my fate!

Given that with my age and state of health I'd only be eligible for whatever the British equivalent of the Volksturm would be I'll hope I never have to go into military combat!

Not sure I'm up to learning to operate hi-tech equipment ... like a panzerfaust

[mart678]

No You need to watch!!!!

39th Battalion about Aussies on the Koda Trail
Letters From Iwo Jima al lot better than the American perspective filmed at the same time(Flags of our Fathers)
then there's
9th Company Soviet Para's in Afghanistan

[Techno]

Not sure I'm up to learning to operate hi-tech equipment ... like a panzerfaust

That's easy...Even I can do that......Just press the button on the top right of the PSP and watch it go 'whoosh' towards the target....Mind you..Sometimes you have to use two of the rockety things to destroy the target. 
Cheers - Phil.

[FierceKitty]

Given that with my age and state of health I'd only be eligible for whatever the British equivalent of the Volksturm would be I'll hope I never have to go into military combat!

Not sure I'm up to learning to operate hi-tech equipment ... like a panzerfaust

Well, I'm a South African. Some of our most efficient soldiers historically have used equipment that was less hi-tech than a hoplite's! I shouldbe able to master it, if I can avoid the barefoot over thorns bit.
O.K., I have Boer ancestry too, but my Afrikaans in-laws (when I had some) certainly saw me as being in the other camp.