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The Pacific

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The Pacific	comment	Produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks as the Spiritual Successor to Band of Brothers and/or The Thin Red Linenote as Band of Brothers is to Saving Private Ryan, The Pacific is a ten-part miniseries that premiered on HBO beginning on March 14, 2010.This series tells the story of the men who fought as part of the 1st Marine Division of the US Marine Corps during the Pacific Theater of World War II. Most of the series follows the experiences of three particular Marines: Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge, and John Basilone. From Guadalcanal, to Peleliu, to Okinawa, these three men, along with their Marine comrades, experienced a war vastly different from the war their fellow countrymen fought in Europe.A spiritual successor of both this series and Band of Brothers titled, Masters of the Air, premiered on Apple TV+ in January 2024.Since The Pacific is mostly based on historical and personal recollections of these Marines, almost all of the tropes below are automatically an example of Truth in Television.
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The Pacific / int_113472aa	type	Miles Gloriosus
The Pacific / int_113472aa	comment	Miles Gloriosus: The commanding officer of Leckie's unit on Guadalcanal gives a boisterous Rousing Speech about finally turning the tide against the Japanese before the landings on Guadalcanal. He then completely breaks down the moment they come under heavy fire at Alligator Creek and is promptly replaced.
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The Pacific / int_121476bd	type	The Millstone
The Pacific / int_121476bd	comment	The Millstone: "Kathy" Peck, as depicted in the series, is a moody draftee whose actions get several of his comrades killed on Okinawa. When he freaks out and gets Hamm killed, Sledge has him hauled off the lines in disgrace.
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The Pacific / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Pacific / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: The first victim is a corpsman (Navy medic attached to the Marines) who went to take a leak and failed to present himself with the daily password and was killed by friendly fire. In Part 5, Bill "Hoosier" Smith is shot in the leg, and begins bleeding out. His last words to Leckie were "Bob, I'm sorry..." Lew "Chuckler" Juergens is also hit and presumed dead. Thankfully, both recover from their wounds. In Part 7, Lieutenant Edward "Hillbilly" Jones is killed in action; Captain Ack-Ack dies later that episode Sledge and Leckie can't die, as the series was based on both of the books that they wrote and published after the war. Chesty Puller can't die. We know from actual history that he lives to fight in the Korean War. Most people know that John Basilone dies at Iwo Jima.
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The Pacific / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Pacific / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: What, in addition to nocturnal enuresis, gets Leckie off Pavuvu, where he meets some other shell-shocked Marines. The Marines' commander during their first battle on Guadalcanal. In Part 7, Gunny Haney goes through one after Lt. Hillbilly is killed, and later on Sledge's platoon when they learn Captain Ack-Ack is dead. Hell, Part 7's basically one long, drawn-out BSOD for Sledge as he goes through Peleliu. Basilone's platoon when he's killed by machine gun fire in Part 8. After returning home, Sledge breaks down crying while dove hunting with his father, presumably because of the memories it brings back. The Real Life Sledge states he told his father he could no longer tolerate seeing any form of suffering, be it a wounded dove he had to kill during a hunt.
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The Pacific / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Pacific / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Many people have noted that The Pacific is much more brutal and less romantic than its predecessor Band of Brothers. Band of Brothers wasn't a picnic but The Pacific went much more into the horrific conditions of the Pacific Theater and the mental and emotional scarring afterwards. Given that the Pacific Theater was more brutal overall, this is justified. Originally, one of the veterans interviewed for the series was to be Bill Guarnere from BoB, though this was later cut. Guarnere has said in no uncertain terms that as bad as the War in Europe was, the Marines in the Pacific had it even worse.
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The Pacific / int_1675f03d	type	Macho Masochism
The Pacific / int_1675f03d	comment	Macho Masochism: Semi-invoked by Basilone's brother George in Part 5. When pestered by George for any advice on the battlefield, John simply tells his brother not to play this trope straight...for a reason.
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The Pacific / int_1759ff85	type	Four-Philosophy Ensemble
The Pacific / int_1759ff85	comment	Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Leckie's group of friends (Runner is the Cynic, Hoosier is the Apathetic, Chuckler is the Optimist and Leckie is the Realist).
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The Pacific / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Pacific / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Captain Andrew "Ack-Ack" Haldane has proven to be this more than once. Unfortunately, he's killed off-screen by a Japanese sniper in Part 7. While they're lowering his body out on a stretcher, most of the men in his company can be seen crying and/or saluting. Even Merriell "Snafu" Shelton's seen holding back tears. R.V. Burgin to the Mortar section. Truth in Television once again. Not to mention "Hillbilly" Jones, and Gunny Haney. Haney is less "father" and more "crazy uncle." Chesty Puller. Yet another reason why he's still a legend in the Marine Corps.
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The Pacific / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
The Pacific / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: The longer the Marines serve on the frontlines knee-deep in mud and rotting bodies, the more exhausted and apathetic they are about the violence and death surrounding them.
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The Pacific / int_1c28faa3	type	Comfort the Dying
The Pacific / int_1c28faa3	comment	Comfort the Dying: One of the more emotional moments towards the end of the series has Eugene Sledge stumble onto a dying Okinawan woman in a cabin. He can't do anything more than comfort her, and despite the Language Barrier he stays with her until she dies.
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The Pacific / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
The Pacific / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Peleliu features both the F6F Hellcat and F4U Corsair in the fighter-bomber roles, strafing and bombing all targets of opportunity.
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The Pacific / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
The Pacific / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: The narrator and the Real Life Marines state after General MacArthur decided not to use Peleliu as a forward base to retake the Philippines, the Marines feel their fight, where they suffered from thirst and took horrendous casualties, was cruelly wasted. Burgin:If our intel had actually been correct, we would've never hit that island.
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The Pacific / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
The Pacific / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: After the first exchange on Guadalcanal, a Japanese soldier lays badly wounded and seems to want people to help him. Once two corpsmen come to assist, the soldier detonates the grenade he's concealing, killing him and the two men trying to help him. Unfortunately Truth in Television; it happened so much that Japanese wounded were soon shot on sight. There's a reason why so few became POWs.
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The Pacific / int_20e0d3e8	type	Tanks for Nothing
The Pacific / int_20e0d3e8	comment	Tanks for Nothing. Truth in Television for both sides. The Japanese tanks were inferior in just about every way, but the Japanese AT defenses were so strong and fortified that Sherman's going up against them without infantry support is the Pacific equivalent of facing a Tiger Tank. They still do good for our protagonists though.
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The Pacific / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Pacific / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: When Jay narrowly escapes being murdered by a Japanese soldier (as Jay was running away with his pants around his knees), several Marines have a laugh at his expense immediately after. Snafu even suggest Jay was in a sack race, and pantomimes accordingly. Crowning this moment is when Jay, with pathetic chagrin and shame, admits to everyone that he just had an accident. The Marines not already laughing lose it (except Ack-Ack).
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The Pacific / int_22711892	type	It Never Gets Any Easier
The Pacific / int_22711892	comment	It Never Gets Any Easier: The opposite still holds; Real Life Marines state they never got over their shellshocked experiences in the Pacific Theater. Played straight in-series with Sledge getting a nightmare the first night he returns home.
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The Pacific / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Pacific / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: A cruel one. In episode nine, Sledge says that they're here to kill Japanese, so what does it matter how they do it or why? This is thrown right back in his face at the end of the episode after he comforts a dying wounded civilian who is then brutally killed by replacement Marines, who unwittingly give him the same line.
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The Pacific / int_24f4c82a	type	Semper Fi
The Pacific / int_24f4c82a	comment	Semper Fi: The series primarily focuses on the exploits of the 1st Marine division, as well as the 5th Marine division during the Battle of Iwo Jima. The fact that "Chesty" Puller gets focus in the first few episodes should cement this.
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The Pacific / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Pacific / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: When Leckie returns from the war and interviews for a writing job at the local newspaper, he requests covering a high school football game between Don Bosco Preparatory High and Bergen Catholic High School. While Don Bosco existed in 1945, the school didn't field a football team until 1948. Meanwhile, Bergen Catholic didn't open until 1955.
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The Pacific / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Pacific / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Special emphasis for to Part 9, particularly when the desperate Japanese soldiers use an Okinawan woman carrying a crying baby as a living bomb.
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The Pacific / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Pacific / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: In the end, after suffering horrific casualties and losing Captain Ack-Ack, the Marines find out that taking Peleliu was completely pointless. General MacArthur invaded and reconquered the Philippines ahead of schedule, negating the need for Peleliu as a forward operating base. The island was never used for a major operation during the entire war.
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The Pacific / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Pacific / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Not the actual dog on Peleliu, but one shellshocked Marine has a nightmare/freakout that could've alerted the Japanese to their positions, and is accidentally killed by his comrades (they only wanted to knock him out). The rest of the platoon's mortified at their actions, but Sledge states it was "better him than all of us."
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The Pacific / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Pacific / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The Japanese soldier that the Marines taunt in episode 1 after the Banzai charge is begging them to kill him. Leckie toasts with "SlÃ¡inte", the Irish word for "health".
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The Pacific / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Pacific / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Jay comes down with an urgent need to take a bathroom break and rushes over to a cave to do his business, completely unaware that there are two Japanese hiding in it. He ends up shooting the first Japanese and getting chased by the second one with his pants down... all the while holding his M1 carbine and crapping himself scared. In Sledge and Eugene's books, the man who shot the guy chasing Jay was a B.A.R. gunner who was trying to shoot the Jap in the right spot so that his bullets would literally cause him to be cut in half.
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The Pacific / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Pacific / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Sledge falls into this after fighting the Japanese through Peleliu and Okinawa, but by the end of Part 9, when he runs into a group of New Meat Marines with the same 'Kill Em All' attitude he had in the beginning, he starts to recover.
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The Pacific / int_2cd9889	type	No Place for a Warrior
The Pacific / int_2cd9889	comment	No Place for a Warrior: When Eugene Sledge returns from the war, he has a lot of trouble readjusting to civilian life. Not only is he a Shell-Shocked Veteran just like his dad feared he would become before he signed up, he also finds normal living to be trivial. When an unemployment officer asks him what his marketable skills are, he can't think of anything other than "killing Japs".
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The Pacific / int_2e121b44	type	Southern Gentleman
The Pacific / int_2e121b44	comment	Southern Gentleman: Sledge reeks of this. Well-spoken, well-dressed, polite and even smokes the pipe. Until Okinawa at least. Sid as well.
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The Pacific / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Pacific / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: A dinner guest at Leckie's house scoffs at the thought of buying a television.
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The Pacific / int_318d4432	type	Tropical Island Adventure
The Pacific / int_318d4432	comment	Tropical Island Adventure: Given that this is a series about the Pacific Theater, all of the battles covered in the series count.
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The Pacific / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Pacific / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Sledge's 6 months of Occupation duty in China are left out.
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The Pacific / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Pacific / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: On The Colbert Report, Tom Hanks warned viewers there would be a lot of objectionable words. He also said you'll feel like a big pussy while watching this.
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The Pacific / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Pacific / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: New York native Joseph Mazzello puts on a solid Alabama drawl for Sledge most of the time, but in a few scenes where he's screaming at the top of his lungs, it slips away. The intensity of his performance more than compensates, though.
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The Pacific / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
The Pacific / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Basilone doesn't enjoy his time promoting War Bonds, and would rather be back fighting alongside his comrades. It is pointed out to him that war is expensive, and that by helping to raise the money to pay for all of their equipment, he is directly helping the Marines.
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The Pacific / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Pacific / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Anyone who knows anything Basilone knows he dies on Iwo Jima. Doesn't make his death less tragic. A few others: Allies won without actually launching assault on the Japanese mainland; both Leckie and Sledge survived and wrote books about their experiences in the Pacific Theater; Chesty Puller also survived the war and stayed in Marine Corps (some other Marine officers resigned after the war because of disillusionment after one of the battles).
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The Pacific / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
The Pacific / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Lt. Mac from Episode 9. In his introduction in Episode 7, he chides Sledge for his thousand-yard-stare, then when he gets to Okinawa, he stupidly chews out Sledge for "giving away their position". (Sledge had just shot down Japanese soldiers who were running directly at them with bayonets!) Other than that he's shown to be fairly reasonable. However, the Lt. Mac in this series is actually based on two historical marines. He is named after Lt. Robert "Mac" MacKenzie, the new mortar section commander, but most of his characterization is taken from 1st Lt. George "Shadow" Loveday, the Company XO and later CO. Shadow was the one who chewed out Sledge, and had a notorious habit of temper tantrums when he became displeased with his Marines (in one incident in the book, he chewed out a Marine who showed bravery in an attempt to knock out a machine gun!). Mac had a reputation for being utterly juvenile, shooting the teeth of a dead animal (on patrol, no less!), shooting the penis off of a dead Japanese soldier, and pissing in another one's mouth. He also bragged about how brave he would act under fire (before actually coming under fire). A far cry from the "Mac" in Episode 9.
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The Pacific / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Pacific / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: After the first wave of Japanese attackers is repelled on Guadalcanal, someone shouts that they have contact on their left. Considering the entire line was attacked the response he gets from another unseen Marine is fitting:
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The Pacific / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Pacific / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute; Stella's family for Leckie, who has little bond with his real parents. Stella even breaks up with Leckie because she's worried how her mother would take it if Leckie was killed in combat.
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The Pacific / int_3f7b645d	type	The Insomniac
The Pacific / int_3f7b645d	comment	The Insomniac: Nighttime bombings by the Japanese took a toll. As Gibson puts it: "They murdered sleep."
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The Pacific / int_402140eb	type	Why Am I Ticking?
The Pacific / int_402140eb	comment	Why Am I Ticking?: The poor, poor Okinawan mother and child.
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The Pacific / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Pacific / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Snafu tricks Peck into trading his new poncho for his old, holey one by claiming the new ones are "covered in chemicals". This comes back to haunt them when Peck switches his busted-up poncho for the one covering the mortar rounds, getting them wet and then getting a guy killed when they get more ammo.
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The Pacific / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Pacific / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Naturally, this being war. The Allies win World War II, but John is killed at Iwo Jima, leaving Lena a widow. Leckie and Eugene return home, start families, and lead relatively successful and peaceful lives, but the implication is that both of them are affected by their wartime experiences for the rest of their lives.
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The Pacific / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Pacific / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: A common tactic used by Japanese infantry each time the Marines encounter them. On Guadalcanal, this results in them suffering horrendous casualties, thanks to assaulting heavily fortified positions and them lacking sufficient artillery support to cover themselves.
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The Pacific / int_4478c66d	type	Flashback Nightmare
The Pacific / int_4478c66d	comment	Flashback Nightmare: One of these happens during battle, see Shoot the Dog
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The Pacific / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
The Pacific / int_44f6517d	comment	Beach Episode: Not necessarily the entire episode, but at the end of nearly every battle the Marines return to the beach for a little "R n' R". Subverted with episode three, wherein they relax and do everything BUT go to the beach.
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The Pacific / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Pacific / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Lampshaded in Part 4, following an attack: Truth in Television with the Japanese Military. Their no surrender and fight to the last man code of honor cost them a lot of men and supplies when simply falling back and regrouping and reinforcing wouldâ€™ve been far more strategically sensible. They fortunately came to their senses after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Which is fortunate since the USA was going to need several more months to build another bomb.
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The Pacific / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Pacific / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Basilone gives a fiery speech to his recruits about why they should never underestimate the Japanese Army.
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The Pacific / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Pacific / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Basilone using his 33-pound crew-served machine gun as a melee weapon against a Japanese soldier he runs into unexpectedly in Part 2.
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The Pacific / int_509f178b	type	Stand Your Ground
The Pacific / int_509f178b	comment	Stand Your Ground: Most of the Guadalcanal campaign but particularly the night battle during which Basilone earns his Medal of Honor.
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The Pacific / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
The Pacific / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Tom Hanks in the prologues.
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The Pacific / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Pacific / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The relatively "peaceful" landing on Guadalcanal in Part One where everyone lands safely is contrasted sharply with the hellish landing in Part 5 where Marines are being shot and blown up left and right.
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The Pacific / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Pacific / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Incidentally, the same episode with Death of a Child has Sledge and Snafu finding the baby in the hut they shelled earlier.
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The Pacific / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Pacific / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Some things are changed from historical accounts for dramatic effect. A map in Episode 1 shows Iceland as being under German control. In reality it had been occupied by the British in May of 1940 to prevent just that from happening, and at the time the episode is set had in fact been transferred to American administration. Basilone's actions shown on Guadalcanal are a composite of the real John Basilone and those of Sergeant Mitchell Paige, another machine gunner who also earned the Medal of Honor during the defense of Bloody Ridge. Basilone's actions are actually toned down because of Reality Is Unrealistic as well; he held his position, alone, for three days. Leckie and Sledge never met, though they're shown discussing religion in Part 5 A lot of the minor things that happened in the memoirs are shifted to different people than who really said/did them, or happen at a different time in the campaign. It's (arguably) an understandable move on the writers' part, considering the numerous characters, since they wanted to flesh them out as much as possible Stella never existed, and her entire story was fabricated by the writers. Leckie actually spent most of his time in Australia dating a number of women. Gunnery Sergeant Elmo Haney never suffered a Heroic BSoD as shown in the series. He was still psychologically fit for combat (even if his Marines thought he was batshit insane), but was pushing fifty. He reached a point on Peleliu where, at his age, his body simply could not keep up with the brutal heat and physical strain. Haney voluntarily withdrew himself from combat, recognizing that he was just too old to continue fighting. Basilone's death on Iwo Jima may or may not be a case of this. There are two accounts of exactly how he died. Most agree that he and several other Marines were killed by an artillery round that struck between them. A handful of accounts claim that Basilone was killed by machine gun fire. The producers chose to film the latter version of events.
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The Pacific / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
The Pacific / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: A number of Japanese soldiers are seen on fire after being attacked with flamethrowers.
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The Pacific / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
The Pacific / int_5f146203	comment	Captain Andrew "Ack-Ack" Haldane has proven to be this more than once. Unfortunately, he's killed off-screen by a Japanese sniper in Part 7. While they're lowering his body out on a stretcher, most of the men in his company can be seen crying and/or saluting. Even Merriell "Snafu" Shelton's seen holding back tears.
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The Pacific / int_62cbb836	type	Mid-Season Upgrade
The Pacific / int_62cbb836	comment	Mid-Season Upgrade: By part 4, the Marines switch from their old WWI-era weapons such as the M1903 Springfield and M1917 Browning to newer ones such as the M1 Carbine, M1 Garand, and M1919 Browning. In addition, they also get new uniforms with camouflage on them. Which actually happened, though some sharpshooters actually liked the old M1903s.
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The Pacific / int_63557923	type	Death World
The Pacific / int_63557923	comment	Death World: Pavuvu in the rainy season, which Leckie fake-translates as "Death of Hope" Okinawa makes Pavuvu look like a fun place to be. All you had to worry about were crabs in your boot, not bodies floating to the surface. Or finding a corpse in the foxhole you've spent hours digging. The literal desert island of Peleliu was also pretty much death incarnate. Always fun to have no local drinking water at all!
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The Pacific / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
The Pacific / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Subverted with Basilone back at Camp Pendleton. His men didn't hate him, and instead most were in awe of him because of what he had done on Guadalcanal, and understood that everything he was drilling into them was for their own good. And we can't forget him telling his men it's okay to be afraid, something most DSN wouldn't do.
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The Pacific / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Pacific / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Basilone at Iwo Jima, where his actions helped get the men off the beach and saved many lives.
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The Pacific / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Pacific / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: "Frenchie", a French-Canadian Marine in Cape Gloucester. Bonus horror for being stark naked when he shot himself in the head. At least he was clean when he died... This was one of the many oft-criticized bits of Artistic License, with Frenchy being a Composite Character note The real-life soldier Frenchie was based on actually survived Cape Gloucester and would later die in action in Peleliu. Disturbed Marine Ronnie Gibson, who is brought off Pavuvu, wishes Leckie (who wants to return to his men) good luck as best he can:
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The Pacific / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
The Pacific / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Although Sledge only starts after he'd seen combat. Interestingly, he opts out of cigarettes to using an old-fashioned pipe by Part 9. Sledge's family was so impressed with Mazello's portrayal that they gave him the pipe Sledge carried during the war.
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The Pacific / int_754004a9	type	Hell on Earth
The Pacific / int_754004a9	comment	Hell on Earth: Peleliu. The landing is a bloodbath, the assault on the airfield is a meat grinder, and the hills are deathtraps. Not an inch of that island was an easy gain. Sad when you consider the Navy ultimately didn't even use the island at all, so hundreds of men were killed for basically nothing. Iwo Jima definitely qualifies, even though we only see a few minutes of it.
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The Pacific / int_7860d036	type	Get It Over With
The Pacific / int_7860d036	comment	Get It Over With: The last survivor of the ill-fated Japanese assault in episode 1. This marks the definitive end of Leckie's New Meat status.
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The Pacific / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
The Pacific / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Leckie states outright in Part 3 that he's the least favorite child and his parents never really wanted him. Also, he had an older brother who died at a young age and ever since then, his parents had a hard time showing affection. When he leaves for the army, his father doesn't seem to know how to show emotion about it, and when he finally returns home, it's treated as an inconvenience by his parents, as they've been using his room for storage. Subverted in that Leckie isn't striving for his parent's approval.
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The Pacific / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
The Pacific / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: When "cease fire" is called on the pistol range at Pavuvu, a second lieutenant who's not paying attention flags the other Marines on the firing line with his .45. The Gunny immediately snarls "Stupid son of a bitch!" then throws a handful of loose rounds at him, takes the pistol away from the lieutenant, ejects a round from the chamber, and berates him (including a very explicit Ass Shove threat) for not knowing basic gun safety. When said lieutenant looks at Ack-Ack, the Captain merely responds with "Gunny's right."
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The Pacific / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
The Pacific / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Averted. When one of the Marines arrives home in Mississippi at a train station, there are segregated signs visible due to the Jim Crow laws the state had in the 1940s.
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The Pacific / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Pacific / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Chesty Puller looks pretty amused by the fact that John Basilone nearly threw up on his Medal of Honor citation.
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The Pacific / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
The Pacific / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: The Marines rest in Australia in Part 3, but it's not restful for everyone
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The Pacific / int_8344209e	type	BFG
The Pacific / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Basilone's Browning heavy machine gun. Which he lugs around and fires from the hip. He even melees a few guys with it. Yep, he's that badass. Completely Truth in Television. Both Leckie and Basilone were in machine gun companies. Basilone didn't just pluck that gun out of thin air, he's well-trained in it. Later, the Marines swap their M1917's for the M1919, smaller but no less lethal, as we see when Basilone turns it into a BFG during the fighting on Iwo.
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The Pacific / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Pacific / int_85557b38	comment	Basilone's actions shown on Guadalcanal are a composite of the real John Basilone and those of Sergeant Mitchell Paige, another machine gunner who also earned the Medal of Honor during the defense of Bloody Ridge. Basilone's actions are actually toned down because of Reality Is Unrealistic as well; he held his position, alone, for three days.
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The Pacific / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Pacific / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television with the Japanese Military. Their no surrender and fight to the last man code of honor cost them a lot of men and supplies when simply falling back and regrouping and reinforcing wouldâ€™ve been far more strategically sensible.
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The Pacific / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Pacific / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The Marines are the protagonists, but the series doesn't shy away from showing some of the heinous acts some of them did and racial epithets are used liberally. Brutal battlegrounds don't exactly encourage the best behavior from people. The only thing keeping the Japanese on the "black" side of the equation are acts like using civilians as suicide bombers and human shields, as well as historical knowledge that Imperial Japan performed atrocities which were much, much worse. In With The Old Breed, which serves as source material for the series, Eugene Sledge describes how the Japanese would brutally torture captured Marines to death. In contrast, Marines would often take gold teeth and other grisly trophies from Japanese dead, but only once did he ever see a Marine abuse a live Japanese soldier. This incident is shown in the series, albeit with minimal context. The other Marines were disgusted by the man's cruelty, and one of them shot that Japanese soldier in the head rather than allow it to continue.
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The Pacific / int_90e8aa77	type	War Was Beginning
The Pacific / int_90e8aa77	comment	War Was Beginning: Invoked in a "where were you when..." way.
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The Pacific / int_93168fb1	type	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet
The Pacific / int_93168fb1	comment	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet: Any frigging time it's quiet is too quiet. This even includes "safe" areas like hospitals and back home, where it's only a matter of time before the Flashback Nightmares start.
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The Pacific / int_945c8d7d	type	War Hero
The Pacific / int_945c8d7d	comment	War Hero: John Basilone is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery in the Battle of Guadalcanal. He becomes something of a Propaganda Hero as well, given his importance in selling U.S. war bonds. Much of his subsequent character arc is him trying to deal with the perception that people have developed of him. He ultimately returns to the front, and is killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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The Pacific / int_9751f6eb	type	Tanks, but No Tanks
The Pacific / int_9751f6eb	comment	Tanks, but No Tanks: Averted, though in this case the reasonably accurate Japanese tanks had to be created as replicas from scratch due to no original examples in running condition.
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The Pacific / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Pacific / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Averted. The first (and only) African-American Marine the viewer sees is lying dead and eviscerated from enemy gunfire on Peleliu's White Beach in Episode 5, but he's certainly not the first Marine to die.
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The Pacific / int_97e17ec4	type	I Will Fight Some More Forever
The Pacific / int_97e17ec4	comment	I Will Fight Some More Forever: The Japanese army. Sadly, this is quite historically accurate; surrender was a nonexistent word in the IJA doctrine and retreat wouldn't get you any nods either, never mind the battlefield situation.
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The Pacific / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Pacific / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: You just know that when Sledge's father makes his final plea to stop his son from enlisting, every one of the poor old man's fears would come to pass (see War Is Hell) During the Peleliu Landing, the Marine manning the .50 Caliber gun on Leckie's landing craft has one of his hands shot off. Later in the episode, Leckie steps on a severed human hand.
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The Pacific / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
The Pacific / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: John Basilone, using a Browning M1917, manages to wipe out an entire company of advancing Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Bloody Ridge.
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The Pacific / int_a3673c4c	type	It Gets Easier
The Pacific / int_a3673c4c	comment	It Gets Easier: Lampshaded all around. However...
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The Pacific / int_a4878b81	type	It's Not You, It's My Enemies
The Pacific / int_a4878b81	comment	It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Inverted between Leckie and his Australian fling Stella.
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The Pacific / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
The Pacific / int_a6bd0685	comment	Sledge, teetering on the edge of committing a war crime (again) after witnessing the Japanese soldiers using civilians as human shields and living bombs, opts not to mercy kill a dying Okinawan woman (who was wounded when he ordered a mortar round into her house) by shooting her in the head like she wants; instead, he cradles her until she dies.
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The Pacific / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Pacific / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Merriell "Snafu" Shelton. His real name is only said twice in the series: once by Sledge, who was fighting with him at the time, and once by Snafu himself, while trying to pick up a girl. Leckie's friends Chuckler, Hoosier and Runner qualify as well, since they almost never get their real names used. Ack-Ack, Hillbilly, Gunny. In fact, it would be easier to list the characters who actually go by their first and/or last names.
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The Pacific / int_a7c904c3	type	America Won World War II
The Pacific / int_a7c904c3	comment	America Won World War II: In Australia, the network that airs the series advertised it heavily as "The Fight for Australia". This annoyed many patriotic Australians. Particularly those who knew their history and know that Australia was never in any real danger anyway —- in fact, the diversion of scarce resources and the further stretching of dangerously over-extended and over-taxed supply lines required for a doomed-to-fail invasion of Australia could have sped the war up a little. Basilone's friend J.P. Morgan plays this straight: an Australian police officer tries to start a fight with him and Basilone about the fact the Marines are on liberty in Melbourne, dating Australian women and occupying the city, while disrespecting their recently deceased comrade Manny Rodriguez: Although some Australian, New Zealand, and British airmen flew from Henderson Field, and one Australian cruiser was lost in Ironbottom Sound, the majority of naval and air forces in the Guadalcanal campaign were American, and US Marines and Soldiers carried the entire ground effort. Much of Australia's relatively small (but highly professional) army was committed to a grueling campaign in New Guinea's Owen Stanley Mountains. Guadalcanal and the earlier Battle of the Coral Sea (fought entirely by the US Navy) were Japanese attempts to strategically outflank the Australians and cut off their supply lines.
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The Pacific / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Pacific / int_a8559a9f	comment	After returning home, Sledge breaks down crying while dove hunting with his father, presumably because of the memories it brings back. The Real Life Sledge states he told his father he could no longer tolerate seeing any form of suffering, be it a wounded dove he had to kill during a hunt.
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The Pacific / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
The Pacific / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Not just the series itself, but Basilone gets his own comic book to help sell war bonds. Lampshaded in the series by Hoosier when a replacement asks if they did anything in Guadalcanal that Basilone did in the comic:
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The Pacific / int_aa2bd65c	type	Mordor
The Pacific / int_aa2bd65c	comment	Mordor: Okinawa, which Sledge explicitly compares to the Western Front of World War One. All the islands get this treatment in one way or another (except Australia).
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The Pacific / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Pacific / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The black servants that the elder Sledges have are definitely not politically correct in 2010... but it's also pretty much historical fact for the time period (not to mention straight-up historical fact for Sledge's family) so they were included for the sake of authenticity.
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The Pacific / int_ab5677c1	type	Boy Meets Girl
The Pacific / int_ab5677c1	comment	Boy Meets Girl: Leckie has a childish crush on his childhood neighbor Vera Keller, but they're barely friends, though they do get together and get married after the war; he also gets along great with the Aussie Stella and her family, but she dumps him because she's worried about what her parents would have to deal with if he died. R.V Burgin has an Australian girlfriend named Florence, whom he brings home to Texas after the war to marry
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The Pacific / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Pacific / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Leckie is one of these, being a writer. Also, Lena Riggs (later Basilone).
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The Pacific / int_af3ff126	type	Idealized Sex
The Pacific / int_af3ff126	comment	Idealized Sex: Averted with Leckie and Stella's first sex scene. Basilone has the literal kind on his war bond tour, with Virginia Grey.
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The Pacific / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Pacific / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: "You guys are heroes back home" Also the darker side of this trope with the number of Marines who perform brutal atrocities during the campaign.
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The Pacific / int_afe98316	type	Talkative Loon
The Pacific / int_afe98316	comment	Talkative Loon: "Captain Midnight", a patient in Part 4, who flies an imaginary plane while pacing around at night in the ward.
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The Pacific / int_aff1ee2e	type	Small Reference Pools
The Pacific / int_aff1ee2e	comment	Small Reference Pools: Whereas Band Of Brothers left the context of battles like Carentan and Bastogne to a few lines of in-universe dialogue, The Pacific began its episodes with a mini-history lesson explaining both the location and the greater tactical importance of the campaigns in question. It stands that (until the swan song battles at Iwo Jima and Okinawa), the 1st Marines' major fights aren't as universally well-known as the 101st Airborne's major fights.
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The Pacific / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Pacific / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Averted. One Marine starts having a panic attack and screams so loud it could have revealed their position. He's hit on the head with a shovel, and dies, either then and there or shortly afterwards.
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The Pacific / int_b5cd68e9	comment	Shellshocked Veteran: Sledge. He's lucky his dad knew what to expect and was extremely sympathetic about it. Hell, every Marine who saw combat in this series counts as one. At the beginning of Part 10 when they're interviewing the Marines' families, their wives and children state they dealt with what happened to them in the Pacific for their entire life. One daughter even admits to having vivid memories of waking up to her father's screams in the middle of the night when she was a kid.
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The Pacific / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Pacific / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: At the end of Part 10, almost every character in the series gets one. Their post-war lives are explained, along with fading photos of the actors to wartime photographs of the Marines they played. Also sad because you find out the majority of the characters have already died of old age, since the show debuted in 2010, nearly seventy years after Pearl Harbor.
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The Pacific / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Pacific / int_b7c53a22	comment	Sledge also is given one in Episode 9, where he seems to go off the deep end in Okinawa. While there can be no doubt Okinawa was a profoundly traumatic experience for Sledge (and the Marines and soldiers involved) there is no evidence he became a Blood Knight with a deep desire to kill all Japanese during the campaign.
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The Pacific / int_becbd1d4	type	Jungle Warfare
The Pacific / int_becbd1d4	comment	Jungle Warfare: The first half of the series falls under this, as the Marines are shown struggling not only against the Japanese, but also against disease, the elements, and the vast and remote jungles of Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester. Initially, Peleliu also falls under this, particularly during Part 5, which is set in and around the beaches and vegetation surrounding the airfield. Once Episode 6 comes around however, this becomes subverted, as a lot of the vegetation in the mountains of the island has been burned down in repeated air and artillery strikes. Completely averted with both Iwo Jima and Okinawa, with the former being a volcanic island with barely any vegetation in sight and the latter like Peleliu ends up being blasted so hard to the point that it resembles a World War I battlefield, especially when the rain comes pouring in.
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The Pacific / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
The Pacific / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: In Part 9, two new privates join the platoon's mortar squad after Jay's mysteriously transferred out to a different company. Sledge and Snafu are initially hostile towards them, mainly due to their inexperience when it comes to fighting the enemy and dealing with the elements. Though Hamm's very competent, after witnessing the horrors of what happened with the civilians he is emotionally distraught about it, yet capable to handle himself. In fact, Snafu tries to befriend him but when draftee Peck cracks while Snafu and Sledge are arguing and starts firing at the Japanese, Hamm is killed after dragging Peck to safety. Snafu takes it really hard emotionally and Sledge tells the MPs to get the now broken Peck out of his sight in so many words.
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The Pacific / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Pacific / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: This series basically defines the trope.
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The Pacific / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
The Pacific / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: A very benign one, filled with shell-shocked Marines.
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The Pacific / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Pacific / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: During John and Lena's wedding, Lena complains that she feels 'like a Paratrooper' in her long silk dress. Lt. Harry Welsh actually carried his white silk reserve parachute through Normandy for over a month and then sent home to his fiancÃ©e Kitty so she could use it to make a wedding dress, as mentioned in Band of Brothers.
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The Pacific / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
The Pacific / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Snafu nicknames Eugene "Sledgehammer". When Leyden speaks up about this, Snafu dubs him the following:
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The Pacific / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
The Pacific / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Lieutenant Colonel Lewis "Chesty" Puller. Yes, that guy actually existed. Chesty Puller is still considered a badass by today's Marines, and at Parris Island and MCRD San Diego they end their day by saying, "Good night Chesty Puller, wherever you are!" He's also the most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps. He had five Navy Crosses, more than anyone has received ever (something the Marines like to remind the Navy every now and then). The only medal for valor that he was not awarded is the Medal of Honor, and some speculate that's he didn't receive this award because he didn't kiss ass and refused to play political games. Though pretty much everything that came out of his mouth proved he was a badass, he famously said this about being surrounded during the Korean War:
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The Pacific / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
The Pacific / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: Since Japanese tanks are outdated in design, they are woefully outclassed against American armor, most prominently the Sherman tank. Iwo Jima's a different story, all together: AT guns set up on Mount Surabachi destroyed most of the tanks that hit the shore, much to Basilone's dismay.
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The Pacific / int_d29e7760	type	Southern-Fried Private
The Pacific / int_d29e7760	comment	Southern-Fried Private: Sledge and Sidney, both Mobile, Alabama natives.
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The Pacific / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Pacific / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Invoked by a Marine to Sledge and Snafu as they're standing with drawn weapons over a crying baby in a house they bombed, killing or mortally wounding its family, Sledge to a seemingly New Meat who kills a young, helpless Japanese soldier he'd just decided to spare seconds earlier:
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The Pacific / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
The Pacific / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: It's Basilone's decision to extend his enlistment that dooms him. He could have lived a happy life with his new bride Lena, selling war-bonds until the war concluded, and as a war hero, nobody could have asked any more of him than he had already done. But he just can't leave his guys, whom he personally trained, to go fight the enemy alone, and so he opts to join them. He ends up KIA in the absolute nightmare that is Iwo Jima.
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The Pacific / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Pacific / int_d9ffec82	comment	Curbstomp Battle: Leckie's first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal; the Japanese troops try to rush their strongpoint in Alligator Creek and suffer over 700 dead, to only 44 Marine casualties. When the sun rises after the battle the beaches and sandbars are covered in corpses. The next major battle near Henderson Field is even worse, there are so many dead Japanese that Sgt. Basilone has to run out and push the pile down so his machine guns have a clear line of fire.
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The Pacific / int_dd51740f	type	P.O.V. Sequel
The Pacific / int_dd51740f	comment	P.O.V. Sequel: To Band of Brothers, covering the events in the Pacific theater as opposed to Western Europe.
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The Pacific / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
The Pacific / int_dd6ce5db	comment	This was one of the many oft-criticized bits of Artistic License, with Frenchy being a Composite Character note The real-life soldier Frenchie was based on actually survived Cape Gloucester and would later die in action in Peleliu.
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The Pacific / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Pacific / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: A mild case with Snafu. In real life, there's no evidence he committed any of the "questionable" acts we see on screen. A mild case because he's ultimately more of an anti-hero, has numerous Pet the Dog and Plucky Comic Relief moments and, for all his gruesomeness, is never seen killing prisoners or unarmed civilians. Also "Kathy" Peck from Okinawa: he is responsible for Hamm's death. The only similarity to the real-life Kathy, who was actually a machine gunner, is that he has both a wife and a mistress back home. The real Peck according to Sledge's memoirs is in fact much more competent than in the show, having helped gun down a banzai charge with his aforementioned machine gun. Sledge also is given one in Episode 9, where he seems to go off the deep end in Okinawa. While there can be no doubt Okinawa was a profoundly traumatic experience for Sledge (and the Marines and soldiers involved) there is no evidence he became a Blood Knight with a deep desire to kill all Japanese during the campaign.
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The Pacific / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Pacific / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Stella in Episode 3 is a mixture of two girls Leckie had affairs with in Australia. In Real Life, however, Leckie admits that there were little emotions involved in both, and he never met their families nor was broken up with over fear of death.
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The Pacific / int_e5a9f2b9	type	While You Were in Diapers
The Pacific / int_e5a9f2b9	comment	While You Were in Diapers: Basilone tries to make his trainees understand how tough an enemy the Japanese are. "The Jap I know—the Japanese soldier—he has been at war SINCE YOU WERE IN DIAPERS!"
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The Pacific / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
The Pacific / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: Used in effect by following Sledge through the Peleliu beach landing in Part 5
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The Pacific / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Pacific / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When Snafu tells Kathy that the new rain ponchos are treated with all sorts of chemicals, his tone of voice suggests that the ponchos are dangerous (so that Kathy would trade the new poncho for Snafu's old and full of holes one). However, the new ponchos are indeed treated with all sorts of chemicals, in order to make them considerably more water resistant than the old ones.
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The Pacific / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
The Pacific / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: When Sledge's company is coming off the line from Peleliu, they pass a USO station where nurses are handing out lemonade. Sledge is mesmerized by a young nurse's beauty... then a Marine Lieutenant (in a clean, crisp uniform) tells him to get moving. Sledge glares at him, and the Lieutenant flinches from the look in his eye.
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The Pacific / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Pacific / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The entirety of The Pacific is basically this. Made brutally clear by Eugene Sledge's father, who tries one last attempt to persuade his son from enlisting:
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The Pacific / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Pacific / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Leckie gives a Japanese soldier who's going through a major breakdown one, upsetting the Marines who were toying and taking potshots at him. The sick Japanese soldiers in Part 4, one of whom is strangled to death by Gibson, who then starts grinning; awkwardly, but still... Snafu does this when another Marine's trying to pry the teeth out of a still-living Japanese soldier's mouth in Part 7. Although he claims it's not so much this trope as making things easier for the Marine because the teeth are easier to get out if they're dead. Sledge, teetering on the edge of committing a war crime (again) after witnessing the Japanese soldiers using civilians as human shields and living bombs, opts not to mercy kill a dying Okinawan woman (who was wounded when he ordered a mortar round into her house) by shooting her in the head like she wants; instead, he cradles her until she dies.
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The Pacific / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Pacific / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Arguably Leckie, who promised to write to Vera. While he didn't send any written letters, believing he wasn't going to make it through, he returned home and married her.
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The Pacific / int_f67171cc	type	Empathy Doll Shot
The Pacific / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: When Leckie goes through the pouch of a Japanese soldier and finds mementos of the man's family. He also gets an Empathy Wedding Band Shot.
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The Pacific / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
The Pacific / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: In the second episode, the Marines manage to capture some propaganda papers from the Japanese. They portray the Marines as psychos recruited from prisons and asylums for their savagery and brutality, which causes them to break out in cheers.
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The Pacific / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
The Pacific / int_fc151e9d	comment	He also manages to sound calm about things when it's apparent that he really isn't. When Snafu talks Sledge out of taking up his own habit of prospecting for gold teeth among dead Japanese soldiers, his warning about "diseases that'll make you sick" is less his worrying about hygiene and more a cover to let him express his concern about the comparatively idealistic Sledge starting down the same road he's traveled.
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The Pacific / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
The Pacific / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: The soldiers have a very grim sense of humor as a result of becoming battle-hardened. Often in the show something absolutely awful will happen (such as Jay's Potty Failure when a Japanese soldier attacks him as he tries to take a dump) and the soldiers will laugh and joke about it, simply because War Is Hell and they're used to it by now.
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The Pacific / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Pacific / int_ff7f34c5	comment	A mild case with Snafu. In real life, there's no evidence he committed any of the "questionable" acts we see on screen. A mild case because he's ultimately more of an anti-hero, has numerous Pet the Dog and Plucky Comic Relief moments and, for all his gruesomeness, is never seen killing prisoners or unarmed civilians.
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The Pacific / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Pacific / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Apart from taking liberties for artistic purposes, played straight. The Marines use appropriate weapons for different times. The Springfield and M1917 on Guadalcanal are replaced by the M1 and M1919 in later episodes. The setting, which made Australia look like the hellish Pacific battlegrounds. And finally, capturing just how hellish the PTO was.
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