Quote Originally Posted by JMR View Post
I had read that "the Pacific" will also be based on Robert Leckie's "Helmet for My Pillow." It covers Pearl Harbor through Peleliu and "With the Old Breed" picks up with Peleliu through Okinawa.
JMR you are correct. The Pacific is to be 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 series will tell the stories of the two authors and Marine John Basilone. I may have to get HBO back for this one.

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"The Pacific" (2009)