New Trailer for HBO’s “The Pacific”

World War II was fought by the Allies, aka the United Nations. Omaha Beach and other beaches the US fought their way inland from on and after June 6th, 1944 was taken by the US, and the US alone. US and Commonwealth troops rarely fought side-by-side on the same battlefield, as they used different weapons, had different command structures, etc. Private Ryan was about one US unit’s battle to get off Omaha and find a US troop who was operating in an area under US combat jurisdiction. It was not a movie about “The War in Europe after D-Day”, so naturally there were no British or other Allied troops depicted, as they were not in the areas depicted in the movie. Sorry if that chafes your loins, but you know, I have seen BoB movies that completely overlook the contribution made by the Eagle Squadron, and I got over it.

If this new series is about a Marine unit or units in the Pacific, I doubt there will be a lot of talking about the Kiwis or Aussies or Brits. There will probably not even be much action involving the US Army, although they fought in the Pacific as well, just not side-by-side with the Marines. That would not be “ignoring, downplaying or outright lying” about the contributions of the others who fought and died in the war, but those stories were very often separate from the story of what the Marines were doing in a particular campaign in real life.