Manilianus
His Royal Fubar
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Finally it happened, we're talking about dead bodies again - even with no Psycho and Mila 18 involved.
Maybe we should enliven this by some necro-posts to drive the point home?Finally it happened, we're talking about dead bodies again - even with no Psycho and Mila 18 involved.
I've been told that Hasbro kinda frowns on depictions of dead/dying people in the artwork.(Might also be that MMP don't want to have dying charaters pictured on the box - it's OK to show soldiers, it's a wargame after all; but the real result of war, people dying, is maybe a little less OK...)
If they'd change their policy, the sales chart values wouldn't be the only thing that'd be aroused.I've been told that Hasbro kinda frowns on depictions of dead/dying people in the artwork.
I thought the first photos of US dead were from Buna in Jan 1943. Do I have that wrong? Or were their release just delayed until after the Tarawa images?Just remember, it was over 12 months or more after Pearl Harbor before any pictures of American KIAs appeared in either newspapers
or magazines (Time or Life). The authorities did not want to upset the civilian population with graphic pictures of 'our boys' dying.
President Roosevelt asked Robert Sherrod after Sherrod returned stateside from the Tarawa operation, if the strict guidelines for
pictures showing casualties should be relaxed. Sherrod feeling that the home front was ignorant of what the Pacific theater was like,
told him that the guidelines should be relaxed.
I believe you are correct & when MacArthur heard about it he essentially had the reporter put on probation for releasing the images without going through his HQ first.I thought the first photos of US dead were from Buna in Jan 1943. Do I have that wrong? Or were their release just delayed until after the Tarawa images?