The three principal roles in The Pacific are played by James Badge Dale (Robert Leckie), Joseph Mazzello (Eugene Sledge), and Jon Seda (John Basilone). The Pacific is in part based on the memoirs of ...

Eugene B. Sledge was born in Mobile November 4, 1923, the grandson of Confederate officers. Bookish and frail as a child, he had been taught to hunt and fish by his physician father and spent much ...