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* AFatherToHisMen: The young privates are traumatized from their charge across the airfield, with Private Daniels [[SanitySlippage reduced to counting imaginary Japanese soldiers]], but Captain Ack-Ack is nothing but gentle with them. He guides Daniels away to rest and, when Sledge confesses how terrified he was during the battle, Ack-Ack says that he's scared, too, reassuring the young soldier that it's perfectly normal to be afraid and that he believes their cause to be just.
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* PetTheDog: The young privates are traumatized from their charge across the airfield, one of them counting imaginary Japanese soldiers, but their officers are nothing but gentle with them. One comforts Sledge by reassuring him that they're all scared, and that it's perfectly natural.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Despite being a rather small person himself, Snafu brands Bill Leyton with the EmbarrassingNickname "Ball-peen hammer"--a little hammer for a little man.
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* PetTheDog: The young privates are traumatized from their charge across the airfield, one of them counting imaginary Japanese soldiers, but their officers are nothing but gentle with them. One comforts Sledge by reassuring him that they're all scared, and that it's perfectly natural.
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* WaterSourceTampering: The Japanese have contaminated the islands' water sources to weaken the Marines. They discover a spring, [[{{Squick}} only to discover a goat's corpse floating in it.]]
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* WaterSourceTampering: The Japanese have contaminated the islands' water sources to weaken the Marines. They discover a spring, [[{{Squick}} only to discover a goat's corpse floating in it.]]
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* WaterSourceTampering: The Japanese have contaminated the islands' water sources to weaken the Marines. They discover a spring, [[Squick only to discover a goat's corpse floating in it.]]
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* WaterSourceTampering: The Japanese have contaminated the islands' water sources to weaken the Marines. They discover a spring, [[Squick [[{{Squick}} only to discover a goat's corpse floating in it.]]
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: One Marine starts having a loud nightmare/breakdown while they need to keep quiet to conceal their position. After trying to silence him in every way, someone hits him with a weapon and apparently kills him. They rationalize it as this; if he'd given them away, all of them would have died.
* PutOnABus: Leckie gets taken out of commission ''again'', this time by shrapnel in his face. He gets evacuated to a hospital ship for the remainder of the episode.
* The Nicknamer: Snafu gives Sledge the nickname "Sledgehammer."
* PretextForWar: Discussed trope. Some of the soldiers say the belief that their cause is just is what keeps them going.
* ThirstyDesert: The island has been reduced to slag and dirt by repeated bombardments. When the Japanese poison the water sources and the navy can't get in to resupply, this trope starts happening.
* WarIsHell: Most of the episode is men running through exploding battlefields while artillery rains down. There's very little fun and a lot of slogging through the danger.
* WaterSourceTampering: The Japanese have contaminated the islands' water sources to weaken the Marines. They discover a spring, [[Squick only to discover a goat's corpse floating in it.]]
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The Marines move to capture the Peleliu Airfield while outnumbered, underequipped, suffering in intense heat with little water.
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