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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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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Timothy Van Patten
- 2010-03-14
Leckie was an assistant machine gunner with the 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal. During the Battle of the Tenaru, his company lost nine Marines, including another machine gunner he knew.
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.
From the Japanese soldiers' carefully calculated-and ultimately foiled-attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of ...
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- Robert Leckie
From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid...
- Robert Leckie
- Random House Publishing Group, 2010
- illustrated, reprint
For six months Allied and Japanese forces fought night and day in a ferocious struggle for possession of a tiny ramshackle airfield in the middle of the malarial, pest-ridden jungle of a...
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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.
