The Pacific Episode 3

Key Battles of American History

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal is relieved and arrives in Melbourne, Australia. Battle weary, many Marines go AWOL, engaging in drunken escapades. Leckie falls in love with an Australian girl of Greek descent, who invites him to stay at her parents' home. Not wanting to go through the pain of losing him, Stella breaks up with Leckie and tells him not to return. As a result, Leckie becomes belligerently drunk; when his friend Lew Juergens asks Leckie to relieve him on guard duty so he can urinate, an officer catches him, culminating in Leckie pulling a sidearm and both he and Juergens are punished and demoted. Basilone receives the Medal of Honor for his actions on Guadalcanal and is sent home to sell war bonds.

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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
0:16.5	size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.
0:24.0	Welcome to Key Battles of American History,
0:26.8	a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.
0:32.8	Here is your host, James Early.
0:43.5	Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to The Pacific, our 10-part overview of the HBO miniseries from 2010
0:50.6	of the same name, The Pacific.
0:52.9	This is your host, James Early, as always.
0:56.0	And in this episode, I'm bringing back my old buddy, Sean McIver, and Sean will be with me
1:00.7	for the rest of the series.
1:01.8	We're going to take episodes 3 through 10.
1:04.6	Sean, how are you, sir?
1:06.3	Oh, I'm good.
1:07.5	He's good.
1:08.1	All right.
1:08.5	Well, listeners, by now, most of you are aware, of course, that Sean and I went through
1:14.0	the entire Band of Brothers miniseries a while back, and we also went through Masters of the Air.
1:19.8	So we've had a few requests from listeners to do the entire Pacific series as well.
1:24.8	I did the first two episodes or parts with Dave Holland because they
1:29.6	were about Guadalcanal. Dave is one of the world's leading experts literally on the Guadalcanal
1:35.5	campaign. But as we move on, I wanted to bring Sean back again. And so he's here. And so we're
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