#tpweek

[harry-strickland]

[dawn0fsanity]

Good Marines.

[s-k-y-w-a-l-k-e-r]

The Pacific Appreciation Week | Day Two           One Character ☞ Merriell “Snafu” Shelton

[hbowardaily]

The Pacific Appreciation Week: Day 1 - One Location ⇝ Guadalcanal

- “An epitaph in celebration of our glorious victory of Guadalcanal.” - “Must be tough to write that poem. I mean what the hell rhymes with "Guadalcanal"?”

[ramimedley1981]

The Pacific Appreciation Week

Day Five: One Scene

[hillbillied]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 | 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟓 | 𝟏 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞

Hold here ‘til we load our wounded.

[libramooon]

“I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.”   ━ Eugene B. Sledge's With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 

PART NINE: OKINAWA ║THE PACIFIC 

[hillbillydraws]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 | 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟒 | 𝟏 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩

Old friends, huh? / That explains it.