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Mar 14, 2010 · Guadalcanal/Leckie: Directed by Timothy Van Patten. With James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Jon Bernthal. Veteran Sergeant John Basilone ships out soon after Pearl Harbor for Guadalcanal while other young enlistees are sent to boot camp.
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- Timothy Van Patten
- 2010-03-14
- Biography
- Personality and Traits
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Early life
Leckie was born on December 18, 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. After boot camp at Parris Island (during which he failed miserably at the rifle test) he was assigned to his company at New River. There he got promoted to the rank of Private First Class, which Leckie holds in high regard. At New River, he eventually finds friendship. He first meets Pfc. Bill "Hoosier" Smith, who was a runner for Cap...
Later Life
Leckie moved on to become a reporter for the Associated Press, the Buffalo Courier-Express, the New York Journal American, the New York Daily News and The Star-Ledger. According to Vera, in 1951 he was inspired to write a memoir after seeing South Pacific, a musical on Broadway and walking out halfway through. He said "I have to tell the story of how it really was. I have to let people know the war wasn’t a musical." His first and best-selling book, Helmet for My Pillow, a personal war memoir...
In terms of personality, Leckie is one of the most complicated characters of the series. He was a charming and intelligent person, and he can be a ladies man when he needs to be. However, he, like other marines, has suffered from psychological trauma courtesy of the war, but it doesn't affect him as badly as others like Eugene Sledge. While he was ...
Leckie seemed to be the main focus of the series until he was wounded in Peleliu, Eugene Sledgeseems to take up his mantle for the rest of the series's run.Most of the personalities of Leckie's friends is fleshed out in Leckie's memoirs.After he is wounded in Episode 6, he is absent until 4 episodes later.Leckie died in 2001, the same year that The Pacific's predecessor, Band of Brotherswas released.The Pacific miniseries features the 1st Marine Division's battles in the Pacific, such as Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, and Okinawa, as well as Basilone's involvement in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
He served in combat in the Pacific theater, as a scout and a machine gunner in H (How) Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division (H/2/1). Leckie saw combat in the Battle of Tenaru and in the Guadalcanal Campaign and the Battle of Cape Gloucester, and he was wounded by a blast concussion in the Battle of Peleliu.
Part One is the first episode of the HBO miniseries, The Pacific, centering mostly on Robert Leckie and his experiences on the Battle on the Tenaru during the Guadalcanal Campaign. This episode focuses mostly on Robert “Bob” Leckie, but it also contains brief introductions of the two other main...
In the immediate aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Marine Sgt. John Basilone prepares to ship out and confront the enemy somewhere in the Pacific, while budding journalist Robert Leckie enlists in the Marine Corps.
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Basilone and the 7th Marines arrive on Guadalcanal to reinforce Leckie and the rest of the 1st Marine Division as they defend the crucial airstrip. Basilone plays a key role in repelling a nighttime Japanese attack, but suffers a frightful loss.
