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The Pacific – Part Ten (Home) / Series Finale

By Dave Owen August 15, 1945 is a day instantly recognisable to war buffs and history buffs alike. It is the day the Japanese formalised their surrender. The opening scene of this final episode of The Pacific begins on just thi...
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The Pacific
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The Pacific – Part Nine (Okinawa)

By Dave Owen In 1986 Oliver Stone’s seminal war film Platoon was released. The now famous tagline was “The first casualty of war is innocence”. Nowhere is this more apparent than the story of PFC Eugene Sledge in The Paci...
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The Pacific – Part Eight (Iwo Jima)

By Dave Owen This week was the first time that I realised the final scene of Part Six was not only an absolutely corking final image but also the last time we would probably see Leckie. It was a case of actually living a cliche...
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Retrospectives
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The Pacific – Part Seven (Peleliu Hills)


By Dave Owen *Warning: This review will probably make very little sense if you’ve not seen the episode* At the beginning of this episode several soldiers’ conversation turns to where they’re from. PFC Sledge responds ...
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The Pacific – Part Six (Peleliu Airfield)

By Dave Owen In reviewing past episodes of this show there have been moments, scenes or concepts so elegiac in their delivery or profound in their ideology that they were instantly the backbone of the review. They guided my tho...
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The Pacific – Part Five (Peleliu Landing)

By Dave Owen The Pacific has a rhythm to it I hadn’t noticed before. Perhaps I’m reading too much into it but Robert Leckie (on whose book the series is primarily based on and who takes a starring role played by James Badge...
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