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* RousingSpeech: A few are given, most notably by the general at the episode's start.
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* RousingSpeech: A few are given, most notably by the general [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller Lieutenant Colonel Chesty Puller]] at the episode's start.
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* HappyBirthdayToYou: Sidney Phillips admits he just turned eighteen a few weeks before the battle. The Marines sing this to him.
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* BurnBabyBurn: While leafing through a book of one of the dead Japanese, Leckie finds a photograph of a Japanese woman in a kimono, which he later somberly burns.
* HoldTheLine: The Battle of the Tenaru/Alligator Creek is basically this. At one point, the Marines are putting their entire effort just preventing a flanking maneuver.
* HoldTheLine: The Battle of the Tenaru/Alligator Creek is basically this. At one point, the Marines are putting their entire effort just preventing a flanking maneuver.
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* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: A Japanese soldier, the last of his squad charging the Marines, wanders out unarmed begging to be killed. Leckie obliges him after the others just wound the Japanese soldier.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The girl Leckie talks to at the start is Caroline Dhavernas, who would later go on to star in Series/{{Hannibal}}.
** Fans will also notice that Ramirez is played by Creator/JonBernthal. This was the same year he caught everyone's radar playing Shane in Series/TheWalkingDead
** Fans will also notice that Ramirez is played by Creator/JonBernthal. This was the same year he caught everyone's radar playing Shane in Series/TheWalkingDead
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* RousingSpeech: A few are given, most notably by the general at the episode's start.
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* WeHaveReserves: The Marines are shocked at how many bodies they find the morning after their first battle. [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Television]], as some 20th century militaries compensated for inferior equipment by just overwhelming with numbers, lives of the soldiers be damned.
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In 1942, several Marines prepare for deployment to the Pacific Theater of World War II. We follow them through to their deployment, first landing, and first battle.
!!Tropes:
* HeyItsThatGuy: The girl Leckie talks to at the start is Caroline Dhavernas, who would later go on to star in Series/{{Hannibal}}.
** Fans will also notice that Ramirez is played by Creator/JonBernthal. This was the same year he caught everyone's radar playing Shane in Series/TheWalkingDead
* ReunionVow: Several, as the boys go off to war.
** John has dinner with his large Italian family and expresses hope that they'll see each other again, but his mother is clearly concerned about whether it'll happen.
** Leckie tries to say goodbye to his father, who's originally preoccupied with fixing their car's axel. Eventually he stands up to shake Leckie's hand and wish him a proper goodbye. His stiffness probably comes from not knowing if his son will make it.
* SuicideAttack: After their first battle, the boys are sorting through the dead and find a live one. When they pick him, he detonates a grenade held behind his back. This won't be the last time, either.
* YouAreInCommandNow: The local CO in Guadalcanal, who up 'til this point has been a picture of professionalism, ducks behind cover and looks like he's having a breakdown the moment their first engagement starts. The boys are forced to cope on their own.
!!Tropes:
* HeyItsThatGuy: The girl Leckie talks to at the start is Caroline Dhavernas, who would later go on to star in Series/{{Hannibal}}.
** Fans will also notice that Ramirez is played by Creator/JonBernthal. This was the same year he caught everyone's radar playing Shane in Series/TheWalkingDead
* ReunionVow: Several, as the boys go off to war.
** John has dinner with his large Italian family and expresses hope that they'll see each other again, but his mother is clearly concerned about whether it'll happen.
** Leckie tries to say goodbye to his father, who's originally preoccupied with fixing their car's axel. Eventually he stands up to shake Leckie's hand and wish him a proper goodbye. His stiffness probably comes from not knowing if his son will make it.
* SuicideAttack: After their first battle, the boys are sorting through the dead and find a live one. When they pick him, he detonates a grenade held behind his back. This won't be the last time, either.
* YouAreInCommandNow: The local CO in Guadalcanal, who up 'til this point has been a picture of professionalism, ducks behind cover and looks like he's having a breakdown the moment their first engagement starts. The boys are forced to cope on their own.
