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You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War

You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War

Phillips, Sid

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMilitary BiographiesWorld War II

ISBN10: 0425246299
ISBN13: 9780425246290
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Apr 3 2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Sid Phillips, a World War II Marine Corps hero featured in HBO(R)'s The Pacific, offers up an invaluable firsthand account of the war against Japan.

A mortarman with H-2-1 of the legendary 1st Marine Division, Sid was only seventeen years old when he entered combat with the Japanese. Some two years later, when he returned home, the island fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester had turned Sid into an Old Timer by Marine standards, and more: he left as a boy, but came home a man.

These are his memoirs, the humble and candid tales that Sid collected during a Pacific odyssey spanning half the globe, from the grueling boot camp at Parris Island, to the coconut groves of Guadalcanal, to the romantic respite of Australia. Sid recalls his encounters with icons like Chesty Puller, General Vandergrift, Eleanor Roosevelt, and his boyhood friend, Eugene Sledge. He remembers the rain of steel from Japanese bombers and battleships, the brutality of the tropical elements, and the haunting notion of being expendable.

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