Small Team Bacsi
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An excellent point .
A single continuous story and showing one company vs showing the war thru the eyes of 3 different people, different islands, different units.
Just an aside
in the book With the Old Breed one of the 3 books used for the pacific, eb sledge describes being in battle, no water great heat, no water, marines losing their minds with no water and the heat and the enemy fire
and sledge sees this really old guy , old but only a captain , crawling around under fire and checking on the front line guys
the old man was future senator from IL Paul Douglas
. Douglas turned down a political commission that would mean serving in DC (he was friends with sec of the navy) and he instead enlisted as a pvt in the USMC after getting an age exemption
when Douglas graduated USMC boot camp in 1942 he was 50 years old.
He would get commissioned and combat wounded and decorated later.
But he started as a 50 yo boot pvt
A single continuous story and showing one company vs showing the war thru the eyes of 3 different people, different islands, different units.
Just an aside
in the book With the Old Breed one of the 3 books used for the pacific, eb sledge describes being in battle, no water great heat, no water, marines losing their minds with no water and the heat and the enemy fire
and sledge sees this really old guy , old but only a captain , crawling around under fire and checking on the front line guys
the old man was future senator from IL Paul Douglas
. Douglas turned down a political commission that would mean serving in DC (he was friends with sec of the navy) and he instead enlisted as a pvt in the USMC after getting an age exemption
when Douglas graduated USMC boot camp in 1942 he was 50 years old.
He would get commissioned and combat wounded and decorated later.
But he started as a 50 yo boot pvt