The Pacific

Yesterday, I was watching with my dad the new show called "The Pacific" in HBO, since we are fans of the show "Band of Brothers" and this new show is from the same creators, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, we watched it with interest.

And as we expected it, it didn't dissapointed us, great drama, special effects, history, good characters, and a sense of reality that kept us watching to the screen. As we watch this type of shows, I like to ask my dad about different facts that are written in history, and he enjoys to answer my doubts.

In the episode, the marines are sent to secure an airfield in Guadalcanal, and fight against the counterattacks from the Japanese. In history, when we think about World War II, we foten think first in tha nazi party, mainly Europe, and the Allied armies with their advance throught Europe, but we need to know that this war was greater than we think, it involved different countries, several amounts of people, and great damages to nations around the world.

An example of this what the Pacific War, in which allied forces tried to take down the Japanes empire, and invaded different Pacific oceans. The war began 7 December 1941, with the invasion of Malaya and the Pearl Harbor attack, and it ended with the bombims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945.

I really think that this kind of shows are great, because they involved a type of entertaintment, and people can learn a little of history with them, but it's also good to investigate a little bit at the hostory files of those events, to learn what was the reality of it.