The Pacific Episode 10

Key Battles of American History

History

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Following the Japanese surrender, the Marines return home. Leckie resumes working at the newspaper he worked for before the war. He also starts a relationship with Vera, revealing that he never sent the letters he wrote because he believed he was not going to survive the war. Sledge, Shelton, and Burgin arrive home in the spring of 1946. Sledge is still haunted by the horrors of war, he struggles to adjust despite reassurance from his father and Phillips. Basilone's widow, Lena, visits his parents and gives them his Medal of Honor.

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0:00.0	War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding
0:10.8	right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its size,
0:17.2	and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.
0:24.1	Welcome to Key Battles of American History,
0:26.7	a podcast in which we discuss American history
0:29.0	through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.
0:32.8	Here is your host, James Early.
0:34.5	Thank you. host, James Early.
0:48.9	Hello and welcome back to the Pacific, our episode by episode breakdown of the epic 2010 HBO miniseries, The Pacific.
0:52.9	I'm your host, James Early, as always.
0:55.9	And as always, I am joined by my good buddy, Sean McIver.
1:00.3	And we are bringing this plane in for a landing.
1:03.8	That's a not probably appropriate analogy for the Pacific,
1:06.8	although they did have plenty of planes that they landed.
1:09.0	They had to land at some point, but we are going to finish this up.
1:12.7	And this is a very interesting episode because as I mentioned at the end of our discussion
1:17.2	of part nine, there's no real analog or there's no analogy to this in either Band of Brothers
1:25.4	or Masters of the Air.
1:26.8	We have a whole episode devoted to the men
1:30.7	going home and trying to get settled back into civilian life. And then the episode concludes
1:36.3	with a Cota, as is true with all three of the other series. This one is more like the one in
1:41.9	Masters of the Air, where they put the picture of the actor up,
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