AIRS MARCH 2010 ON HBO

The Pacific is based primarily on two memoirs of U.S. Marines: With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge and Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie.

The 10-part mini-series will tell the intertwined stories of two authors and Marine John Basilone, as the war against the Empire of Japan rages.
Robert Leckie:
saturnfirefly:

winthrope:


The Pacific, Episode One.

Leckie is pretty amazing. Color me impressed.
saturnfirefly:

winthrope:


The Pacific, Episode One.

Leckie is pretty amazing. Color me impressed.

saturnfirefly:

winthrope:

The Pacific, Episode One.

Leckie is pretty amazing. Color me impressed.

We plodded through the heat-bathed patches of kunai grass. We crossed rivers. We recrossed them. We climbed hills. We got into the jungle. We cut our passage with machetes or followed narrow, winding trails. We were lost every step of the way.

—Robert Leckie, Helmet For My Pillow