The Pacific

This ten-part miniseries follows three U.S. Marines—Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge, and John Basilone—through the brutal Pacific campaigns from Guadalcanal to Peleliu and Okinawa. It portrays the physical and psychological toll of jungle and island warfare against Japan. The narrative draws on memoirs to depict combat with unflinching realism.

The Pacific War's island-hopping campaign involved a series of costly amphibious assaults by U.S. forces against fortified Japanese island garrisons, including Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, from 1942 to 1945.

Based on the memoirs of Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie and on research into John Basilone, generally regarded as historically rigorous with high production accuracy.

The first American ground offensive of the Pacific war, fought over a single airfield and the sea lanes that supplied it.

Marines seized the airfield — renamed Henderson Field — and held it through months of night attacks, naval battles and disease. Japan evacuated its surviving troops in February 1943.

Directed by Multiple directors

Cast: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Rami Malek

Positioned at 1942–1945 within the World War II phase of the war, as part of the Pacific island-hopping campaign. This is entry 75 of 150 in the chronological archive.

• Pacific War
• Marines
• Guadalcanal
• Peleliu
• Okinawa
• HBO miniseries

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  Guadalcanal Diary

  August 1942 – February 1943

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  Midway

  June 4–7, 1942

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  The Thin Red Line

  1942–1943

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  The Battle of Okinawa

  April-June 1945

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  Wake Island

  December 8–23, 1941

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  Bataan

  Early 1942