Leckie

Within a year, Leckie is facing his first banzai charge on Guadalcanal, a discomposing event with an aftermath every bit as ghastly, as The Pacific shows.

Getting Their Guns Off 2010

Within a year, Leckie is facing his first banzai charge on Guadalcanal, a discomposing event with an aftermath every bit as ghastly, as The Pacific shows.

Getting Their Guns Off 2010

Within a year, Leckie is facing his first banzai charge on Guadalcanal, a discomposing event with an aftermath every bit as ghastly, as The Pacific shows.

Getting Their Guns Off 2010

(And in real life, the basic training nickname was half-mocking; here, it's a compliment to his fortitude in battle.) • And speaking of nicknames, nice callback for Runner to call Leckie "Peaches" when they find each other on the ship.

What's Alan Watching? Alan Sepinwall 2010

(And in real life, the basic training nickname was half-mocking; here, it's a compliment to his fortitude in battle.) • And speaking of nicknames, nice callback for Runner to call Leckie "Peaches" when they find each other on the ship.

What's Alan Watching? Alan Sepinwall 2010

(The phrase comes from Robert Leckie, who uses it to describe idle marines on Guadalcanal shooting up a captured animal for fun.)

Getting Their Guns Off 2010

Making no mention of church, Leckie flatly informs us on page one that as he left for boot camp he was nursing a tenderness in his crotch, having just had the circumcision required by the Marine Corps.

Getting Their Guns Off 2010

HBO has now released its highly anticipated miniseries The Pacific, a dramatization of our war with Japan, produced by much the same group that brought out Ryan and Band of Brothers (DreamWorks Studios, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks) and based chiefly on memoirs by two marines, Robert Leckie and Eugene Sledge, who fought and suffered in that conflict.

Getting Their Guns Off 2010

It is also pretty personal to my taste, since, as Leckie notes, this is a market of taste.

the view from atop the slushpile « paper fruit 2009

To the chagrin of his buddies, Leckie draws his sidearm and issues a coup de grâce.

Getting Their Guns Off 2010