The Pacific

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'With each passing moment the volume of the bah^bardme, The great thundering cannons of the battleships punc faster, point-blank shooting of the destroyers and the angry buzz gl the navy planes on their bombing runs. The staccato blende vast storm. Each marine told himself that this^olence v^s, thin^. No enemy could survive such fury. The island disa, inside a dark pall of smoke and debris, lit by fires churnii underneath. Apprehension grew inside them. It was all ^big, so fa Ixeyond the^pawer of the individual.'

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Sidney C. Philips, an easygoing Alabama teenager, enlisted along with a friend. 'Manila John' Basilone was the son of immigrants who found happiness in the rough-and-ready life of a marine. Eugene B. Sledge watched his best friend and his brother go off to war - and finally rebelled against his parents to follow them. 'Shifty' Shofner was the scion of a prominent family with a... Tovább

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f»v>XJ? IKj is an IIDlBr miniseries presentation m in association with sky/l/ldVIESHD
'With each passing moment the volume of the bah^bardme, The great thundering cannons of the battleships punc faster, point-blank shooting of the destroyers and the angry buzz gl the navy planes on their bombing runs. The staccato blende vast storm. Each marine told himself that this^olence v^s, thin^. No enemy could survive such fury. The island disa, inside a dark pall of smoke and debris, lit by fires churnii underneath. Apprehension grew inside them. It was all ^big, so fa Ixeyond the^pawer of the individual.'

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Sidney C. Philips, an easygoing Alabama teenager, enlisted along with a friend. 'Manila John' Basilone was the son of immigrants who found happiness in the rough-and-ready life of a marine. Eugene B. Sledge watched his best friend and his brother go off to war - and finally rebelled against his parents to follow them. 'Shifty' Shofner was the scion of a prominent family with a long record of military service. Ensign Vernon 'Mike' Micheel left the family farm to complete flight school.
Between America's retreat from China in late 1941 and the moment that MacArthur's plane landed in Japan In August 1945, these five men fought many of the key battles of the war in the Pacific. Here, Hugh Ambrose focuses on their real-life experiences and those of their fellow servicemen, enhancing and expanding upon the story told in the HBO® miniseries.
Covering neariy four years of combat with unprecedented access to military records, letters, journals, memoirs, photographs and interviews, this volume offers a unique historical perspective on the war against Japan, from the debacle in Bataan to the miracle of Midway, the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa - and ultimately the triumphant yet uneasy return home.
These are the true stories of the men who put their lives on the line for their country, who were dispatched to the other side of the world to fight an enemy who preferred suicide to surrender; men who suffered hardship and humiliation in ROW camps; men who witnessed casualties among soldiers and civilians alike; and men whose medals came at a shocking price - a price paid in full by all. Vissza