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THE LIBERATOR: The true story of the most racially diverse unit of WWII by jeremiahcustis

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THE LIBERATOR: The true story of the most racially diverse unit of WWII
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This four part miniseries is like *The Dirty Dozen* mixed with *Band of Brothers* with *Scanner Darkley*'s animation style and seems too good of a story to be true, but it is based on a true story. 

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It starts off with a young lieutenant tasked with getting J company ready for a live fire drill. When he finds it, he see's that the J stood for jail. He gives the men the choice of staying locked up or to train with him.

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When training at the firing range a massive bully of a master sergeant heavily berates his men so he suggests that rather than talking down to them maybe he should actually do his job and teach them.

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This pisses the master sergeant off so much he invites the lieutenant for a fist fight behind the shed. This brawl earns him the men's respect.

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One of the American soldiers gets captured by the Nazis who looks at the names of some of the dog tags he's aquired noticing most men have Mexican and Native American names. The Nazi suggests that America must be desperate to recruit men like that and the captured soldier defends his brothers saying they are Americans just like him. The Nazi officer tells him he has been to America. He studied at MIT and had traveled to the south and had seen signs barring Mexicans from bars and seperate water fountains  for blacks and whites wisely asks why men would die for a country that treats them as second class citizens and tells him they are not like him.

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I thought the animation over real actors was just an effect for the opening credits, but the whole series was done with it. It was weird at first, but it's such a good story that it didn't bother me after a while. Infact I think it helps the audience focus on the men of the story rather than the sets or props.

If you like WWII army movies, then *The Liberator* wont let you down. It's a powerful story of courage and leadership. I thought this was a story too good to be true, but after looking into it, I found it was based on real events. I highly recommend watching this inspirational Netlix orginal series.

https://youtu.be/vZaIZgkCcXQ

## Images:
I screenshot all of these images while watching the series on Netflix.

## Resources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-history-netflixs-liberator-180976269/
https://screenrant.com/liberator-felix-sparks-after-ww2-what-happened/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_L._Sparks
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@netflixr ·
I've started watching this and feel as though it is really inventive of them to use part animation and part live action.  It certainly would save some money on production costs as far as the battles are concerned.   

I'm still on the fence as to whether or not I think it is all that great though.  I've only been through 1.5 episodes as this point.  It's good enough that I will likely finish the rest of them, but up to this point i am not blown away (no pun intended) 
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I'll agree at ain't *The Mandalorian*, but I enjoyed it enough to watch all four without stopping. Wait till the ending...
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@netflixr ·
lol.  sure thing.  I'll get back into it stat!  
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