The Most Honored Photograph

This new stand alone release based on the legendary War in the Pacific from 2 by 3 Games adds significant improvements and changes to enhance game play, improve realism, and increase historical accuracy. With dozens of new features, new art, and engine improvements, War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition brings you the most realistic and immersive WWII Pacific Theater wargame ever!

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http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/10/the-most-honored-photograph
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Amazing! That should be a film. Thanks for posting.
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I fear that Hollywood could screw up a great piece of history.
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I fear that Hollywood could screw up a great piece of history.

NO WAY!!! Ben Affleck can be Zeamer and Kate Beckinsdale can be.....
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Great story! Thanks!


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NO WAY!!! Ben Affleck can be Zeamer and Kate Beckinsdale can be.....
Consider this your first warning. Mentioning some actors names in this forum could lead you to a bad end[:D][:D][:D]
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Thats a great piece of history. Never heard of it before!
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Yeah, no love story. It's all dudes. A plane. Wrenches and machine guns. Bad behavior. Lots of great aerial cinematography. Bullets flying everywhere. Mission accomplished. And the cost.
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ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth
NO WAY!!! Ben Affleck can be Zeamer and Kate Beckinsdale can be.....
Consider this your first warning. Mentioning some actors names in this forum could lead you to a bad end[:D][:D][:D]


If her "end" is considered bad, put me in prison! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwu2j0r4z3g

P.S. Great Pic and a story I had never heard mentioned before.
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ORIGINAL: spence
I fear that Hollywood could screw up a great piece of history.

NO WAY!!! Ben Affleck can be Zeamer and Kate Beckinsdale can be..... naked.
I fixed your post for you.
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UDOM...perhaps you meant nose-art (which might well have been the same thing).
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ORIGINAL: obvert

Yeah, no love story. It's all dudes. A plane. Wrenches and machine guns. Bad behavior. Lots of great aerial cinematography. Bullets flying everywhere. Mission accomplished. And the cost.


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ORIGINAL: CyrusSpitama

If her "end" is considered bad, put me in prison! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwu2j0r4z3g

She has a nice smile.

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The closing lines of the film adaptation of Michener's The Bridges at Toko-Ri:

"Where do we get such men? Where do we get such men?"
"Goddamn it, they're gittin' away!!"
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