The Pacific

There were long piers on Guadalcanal

and we really and truly figured none of us

Will survive err, that... we were expandable.

The Japanese navy came in

and sank all of our escorts.

The American navy suffered one of their worst defeats in history.

And our supplies, food

and most of our ammunition went down with it.

By September of 1942,

the marines had been left to fight the battle for Guadalcanal alone.

They were vastly under supplied.

And many were on the verge of starvation.

We knew that our navy had left and that

the Japanese had control of the sea.

And that they can supply their troops,

and we... we couldn't.

With thousand of Japanese reinforcements pouring onto the island...

The marines were strafed and bombed continuously.

Pressure was on us from the Japanese,

24 hours a day,

and they bombed every day

in big formations.

They just kept coming in

and guns just pounding.

At the mercy of the Japanese bombers,

and without any naval support,

the marines' battle get another enemy:

the jungle on Guadalcanal.

The jungle on Guadalcanal

was practically impenetrable.

The malaria was vicious,

boys would come down with chills, half temperature was 105F.

The whole Guadalcanal campaign was

one of near starvation as I recall it.

After enduring more than a month of jungle warfare.

The marines faced the Japanese offensive to retake their lost airfield.

On Guadalcanal I developed a sort of a...

formula in life,

in which there're times, that you just pray and hold on.

And that's what we did on Guadalcanal.

Repeatedly,

we just pray and hold on.

Eugene, I- I'm sorry.

Murmur's still there.

The boy's disappointed.

I wish we were going together.

I joined the marines.

Take care of yourself.

Maybe I'll write you.

The pacific will be our theater of war.

The marines will do battle with the Japs

on tiny specs of turf that we have never heard of.

Welcome to Guadalcanal.

Let's assume the japs are watching right now, preparing to come at us.

Assume? They are.

Wait? Look, look, look.

Stay down. Stay down.

Look at 'em all.

They just kept on coming.

Morning, boys.

Colonel Puller.

Where you headin'? - Tokyo.

Care to join us?

I don't know. It's away, sir.

Write us when you get there.

I will.

You seen those guys?

They look like they been through the wringer.

That's one way of putting it.

You see Briggs? His men?

No, sir.

Hold that front.

Guard that front.

Cease fire. Cease fire.

Cease fire.

Break 'em down.

Give 'em the damn password. Lorelei, Lorelei.

Cover the rear. Make a hole, make a hole.

Jesus Christ.

Fuckers really are sneaky.

Hey.

Are you hit?

No.

Chesty wants your squad to hang back with Abel company, see if the nips follow us.

Then we'll rejoin the battalion further north. - Yeah.

Jap? - Yeah?

Set up on that trail. - On it.

Manny, hand that piece to garland and dig in next to me and mo.

Come on, let's go. Deploy.

You heard him. Let's go, let's go.

Evans, on me. - Yes, sergeant.

Supper's on. Supper's on.

Got anything good?

What are those? - Army rations from 1918.

Quartermaster over in dog company

Claims they're edible.

After you suck on them for about an hour or two.

This is all you could find?

You firkin' forage next time.

Hey, who you writing to, Leckie?

Is it a broad?

Aw, come on, Leckie.

Read it.

I'd do it for you.

'Dear Vera... ' - I knew it. It's a broad.

'Dear Vera, it's raining.

I'm entertaining runner by reading this letter.

Can't wait to see you and ever so slowly

Strip you of your... '

You don't need to hear that part.

Oh, that's Presley what I need to hear.

Tell her how handsome I am.

I'm gonna tell her the truth.

We've been swallowed by the jungle

And 5,000 japs waiting to kill us.

Hey, thanks for brightening the mood.

Oh, I do what I can.

Unless it's somebody with b. O.

That's really dismal.

Yes, and the most dismal thing

About b. O. Is...

Keep that line moving. Let's go.

Especially the ladies.

Well, Mr. May, the ladies know

How easy my pancakes... Espere to make. Adies.

Turn that shit off.

I don't wanna hear about b. O. And pancakes.

I don't answer to you, Morgan.

What? - Shove it.

What? - Whoa whoa whoa.

Man: Tear his head off. - Get the fuck off me.

Relax relax.

Yeah, rice. Just what I was hoping for.

What do you got against aunt lemma?

Jap navy sails up and down this slot every night and plasters us.

That don't got nothing to do with her.

The only radio reports I wanna hear

Is that a bunch of jap ships have been sunk somewhere

Off some crappy island called Guadalcanal.

But we'd need the navy for that, wouldn't we?

So fat chance. - Come on. Hey hey.

So the japs got us surrounded.

Is that what's buggin' you?

John, I shit like 20 times a day. My ass is killing me.

Jp's in a bad mood, Manny.

Next he'll be complaining about the mosquitoes.

Come here.

Hot chow'll cheer you up.

Think of it as meat.

Fuck it. - Next.

Boys, division just translated some jap newspapers

That was found on the other side of the Matanikau.

Would you care to know what the nips think of us?

Yes, sir.

'The Americans on this island

Are not ordinary troops, but marines,

A special force recruited from jails

And insane asylums for bloodlust. '

They got that right.

I got some more good news.

Rumors that they would never get here are to the contrary.

The army just landed.

I know, I know.

I want every man in my battalion shaved by 1600.

Yes, sir.

I guess there ain't nothing much we can do about our dungarees.

I figure we're just raggedy-ass marines.

We look this way for a reason. Yes, sir.

We can't do it if they don't run.

Jesus Christ, Evans, you sound like my fucking wife.

Kinda looks like her too, huh? - A little bit.

What's this? Hey.

Hey, whoa. Hey hey hey. - Whoa whoa whoa.

Hey, fuck you.

Fuck you guys. - Put your face right fuckin' here.

Thanks for coming, guys. - Fuckin' army.

Just fuckin' wait.

Get in here.

See, Evans?

The army don't know e japs bomb the airfield,

But not the beach.

Stay low, get greedy.

Let's go. Come on.

Come on, come on, come on. - Over here, over here.

Grab it, just grab it.

Hey, Manny. Over here, Manny. - Come on, come on.

Give me some stuff.

Fill it up. Let's go.

Jackpot, boys.

Look at this.

Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Come on, jp, get it in the bag.

Get it in, get it in. Come on, jp, come on.

Jp, make sure you get those cherries.

Hurry. - I got the cherries.

Hey, give me a hand.

Man: Let's go. - Man #2: Can't get it open.

Man #3: Doesn't matter, any of it. - Man #4: Hey, grab this.

Man #3: Throw it in there.

Man: Pop that locker. - Man #5: I got it. I'm trying.