a5c7b9f00b The Pacific follows the lives of a U.S Marine Corps squad during the campaign within the Pacific against the Japanese Empire during WW2. Made by the creators of Band of Brothers, it follows a similar line of thought to outline the hardships of the common man during war. The Pacific is in parts a fast paced war series that can be enjoyed by action lovers whilst containing a more sensitive side when projecting the relationships (brotherhood) of Marines on the battlefield. Where The Pacific takes a new direction from its "older brother" is in its depiction of the lives of soldiers who were picked to return home to increase the sales of war bonds. In doing this it also depicts the life cycle of returned soldiers from initial joy to the eventual feeling of regret and to a certain extent shame felt by soldiers wanting to return to the war in service of either their comrades or nation.
Based on the accounts of Marines in World War II, this 10-part miniseries follows the intertwined journeys of three U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater – Pfcs. Robert Leckie and Eugene B. Sledge and Sgt. John Basilone – from their first battle against Japan on Guadalcanal, across the sands of Iwo Jima and the horror of Okinawa, to their ultimately triumphant return after V-J Day.
I have always been fascinated with American war history; watching dozens of documentaries, reading books, and of course watching any movie I can find. "Band of Brothers" I consider to be the best "movie" every filmed about war. Maybe unfair since it's actually a series, but still likely utilizing the same budget over the entire seriesa single feature film, so completely fair with that in mind.<br/><br/>So with that in mind I was very anxious to watch "The Pacific" when the film series was announced. After watching the series, I then read both books that the series was based on; "Helmet for My Pillow" and "With The Old Breed." I then went back and watched "The Pacific" once again.<br/><br/>"The Pacific" really had no chance of ever comparing to "Band of Brothers" because the conceptual idea of the film series was flawed from the beginning. While "Band of Brothers" followed a single Army company through the entire European battles, "The Pacific" chooses two individuals to follow; Robert Leckie and Eugene Sledge. While both were Marines in the same division (and their paths did in fact cross paths at the island of Pavavu (training and R&R location)), the addition of Robert Leckie's view of the war and arbitrarily adding Medal of Honor winner John Basilone was a significant mis-calculation.<br/><br/>The series really fails to gain traction by telling us mis-matched stories. Robert Leckie is not even a likable character, nor does he do anything outstanding in battle. The inclusion of Leckie is really about the wars damage to young men in war; seeing Leckie physical ailments and others around himwellhis instable personality. The inclusion of John Basilone makes no sense either since he is not in either of the aforementioned books. Furthermore, focusing on Basilone makes the series jump from one battle to another without seeing the pacific theatre in its natural progression. The worst being how they only showed enough of the battle of Iwo Jima to see Basilone die, then we cut away like the battle was over because Basilone was lost. 6,000 Americans died in order to take the small island of Iwo; this is a complete injustice of huge proportions.<br/><br/>"The Pacific" would have been a terrific series if the producers of the films would have completely focused on Eugene Sledge. Sledge witnesses some of the worst horrors of battle ever witnessed by a single soldier, and the series does a complete dis-service in not properly telling that story. Maybe they thought it would be too difficult to swallow for the average viewer, thusly drawing poor ratings, so they avoided it, but I think it was a serious mistake, and thusly makes the series significantly less compelling than "Band of Brothers."<br/><br/>Eugene Sledge was a common young man whom idealistically joins the best, the Marines to fight for his country. He goes through very good training and travels overseas to prepare for battle. On the island of Pavuvu they experience a stench of smells never imagined of rotten coconuts, stinking rats, and stone crabs everywhere. Once they depart for Peleliu he goes on to experience some of the worst fighting the U.S. has ever seen. Fighting on an island of coral that provided no place to bury dead or even dig a hole to defecate-in like a solider would normally do in battle. I don't think anyone can image that type of horror, and the series I think completely misses the mark.<br/><br/>Okinawa was worse! Sledge believed it could not be possible, but he was wrong; fighting on battle fields wiped-out from every living tree and shrub from constant artillery fire,and skirmishes. He saw battle fields that was strewn with dead and rotting American Marines with mud several feet thick making removing dead marines from the battlefields impossible, which Marines had really not done beforeit was customary to expend great resources to remove downed American Marines.<br/><br/>I thought the series effecively showed how the Americans returning to the USA after VJ Day were mostly ignored, unlike the returning hero's from Europe.<br/><br/>While I did enjoy the series and recommend its viewing; I find it still a significant disappointment and wished the producers would have understood that the series about the Pacific Theatre of war during WWII could not ignore the fact that it was the most brutal fighitng the U.S. has ever witnessed and likely ever will.
First off I am a massive fan of the first Band of Brothers. The character development it presentedthe series went on really drew you in,a result you cared about them which is what made the tension of the series.<br/><br/>Which leaves me wondering where BoB: Pacific has gone so wrong. Firstly, character development, there isn't any. You get a few token scenes of people saying goodbye to their families, and then bang you are on the beaches. As a result you don't know the characters, and so you don't care when they start dying. You have no idea of what these guys have gone through leading up the first assault, and you get no sense of their group dynamic. Its just a bunch of the most ragtag, barely military with seemingly no military training guys, acting like their hardcore vets off the set of Commando, where all it takes to defeat the Japanese is set up a machine gun post and the Japanese do the rest. As someone who is in the armed forces and studied the pacific war, the portrayal of the Japanese is ludicrous. They were some of the best jungle fighters in armed conflict, yet in BoB: Pacific, they are portrayedcannon fodder. Yes, their fatalism is well documented, but it was always to a strategic end. Not in BoB: Pacific.<br/><br/>Overall, thoroughly disappointed so far. The original BoB was amazing, and standsone of the best WW2 series ever made. This, is something I pretend doesn't exist lest it ruin my memories of the original BoB.

Although it is possible that a few actors who had small non-reoccurring roles in the "Band of Brothers" series will make an appearance in "The Pacific", it is highly unlikely. This is mostly due to the fact that it is totally different true account of Marines experiences in WWII and that reusing certain actors may take away from the credibility of the series. Producers do not want any confusion to take place, and this is entirely possible if the viewer recognizes a face and assumes he is the same character from "Band of Brothers".<br/><br/>Freddie Joe Farnsworth, a stuntman who who had two minor roles in the third and sixth episodes of "Band of Brothers" will appear in "The Pacific." In war the first source of valuable loot comes from dead comrades, and secondly from dead civilians. Valuable objects suchwristwatches are usually of use to the enemy, therefore they should be taken. Obviously gold was a strategic resource during the war. Civilians in combat areas often carry their total wealth in banknotes, and again it was better for this to be recovered from the dead and used. Thefts by everyone from everyone is common in war zones, and especially from vehicles, even tanks,they carry all sorts of interesting things.<br/><br/>It was a common grisly practice of American marines fighting in the Pacific, and there is documentation that it happened (see below). The obvious reason would be for the gold's value & the potential money to be gained from trading it during or after the war, however, there may be a symbolic or thematic meaning in it too, the concept of collecting a trophy from those you've conquered. A similar scene takes place in the movie <a href="/title/tt0120863/">The Thin Red Line (1998)</a> which is about the Army mop-up actions some months later after the initial Marine invasion of Guadalcanal in August 1942.<br/><br/>There is some documentation that it took place. Robert Leckie writes in his book, Helmet for my Pillow, that there was one Marine who did go around taking the gold teeth out of dead Japanese soldiers' mouths. He kept them in a bag around his neck. He never really explains why the man did it, butstated above, it would have been worth a lot of money. Many of the Marines fighting in the Pacific wanted "trophies" and yes, gold teeth were just another trophy.<br/><br/>(In the book, he refers to another Marine doing this, but not Snafu. Several smaller characters were amalgamated into Snafu for the purposes of the series.)<br/><br/>However, Marine practices suchthis were in response to initial Marine encounters with Japanese atrocities committed against captured Marines. Marines were often tortured, mutilated, and dismembered by Japanese soldiers upon capture, and some strung up alive for bayonet practice. As a result, Marines showed no mercynone was shown to them. The pistol is a Nambu Type 14, a common one carried by Japanese officers. (It's German counterpart in Europe was the Luger P08. Both pistols were highly prized by American soldiers, the Luger more so. GI's like Leckie would often trade them for anything, including favors, which is why Leckie gives the 14 he had to Dr Grant; Grant allowed Leckie to return to his unit before his recovery was done.<br/><br/>In Leckie's memoir "Helmet for My Pillow" the pistol was not in the chest he found on Gloucester. Another Marine had a run-in with an officer and stole the trophy sidearm back from the officer, giving it to Leckie right before he left Pavuvu so he wouldn't be caught with it. Leckie did point it at the orderly to scare him after he was ordered to strip and hand in his razor blades and belt, but when the doctor expressed an interest in the handgun however, Leckie explained to him that it wasn't his to sell. Yes. The primary sources for the screenplay were Robert Leckie's book Helmet for my Pillow (1954) and Eugene Sledge's book With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1981). They were re-released to coincide with the release of the miniseries in Spring 2010 & are still available.<br/><br/>For John Basilone's story, the book Red Blood, Black Sand by Chuck Tatum was used. Tatum was at the Battle of Iwo Jima that claimed the life of Basilone in 1945 and had been friends with Basilone since boot camp.<br/><br/>RV Burgin's book Islands of the Damned (2010), is based on his experiences on Okinawa, Pavuvu and Pelilieu. It is currently availablewell, and the author is portrayed later in the series by Martin McCann. In 1937 the US armed forces adopted the 8-shot semi-automatic M1 Garand rifletheir standard weapon. However distribution was slow and by the time the US entered the war in December 1941 most US forces were still using the 5-shot bolt-action Springfield rifle which had been in use since 1903, including the Marines at Guadacanal. The Army reinforcements which arrived in Guadacanal were equipped with the M1 and afterwards the Marines swapped their Springfields for them. However production of new Springfields continued until February 1944 and some units suchthe military police continued using them until the very end of the war.
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