• Helmet for My Pillow is the personal narrative written by World War II United States Marine Corps veteran, author, and military historian Robert Leckie...
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    work. Leckie's war memoir, Helmet for My Pillow, along with Eugene B. Sledge's book With the Old Breed, formed the basis for the HBO series The Pacific...
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  • The Pacific (miniseries) (category Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries winners)
    With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge and Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie. It also draws on Sledge's memoir China Marine and...
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    111 Frank, Guadalcanal, p. 157. Griffith, Battle for Guadalcanal, p. 107 Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow, pp. 84–85 Frank, Guadalcanal, p. 158; Smith, Bloody...
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    that With the Old Breed, along with Robert Leckie's Helmet for My Pillow, would form the basis for the HBO series The Pacific. A second memoir, China Marine:...
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    Guadalcanal, remembers the events of the Battle of the Tenaru in his book Helmet for My Pillow: "Everyone had forgotten the fight and was watching the carnage,...
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    Lane (2004), p. 63 Frank (1990), p. 522 Cronin (1951), p. 47 Leckie Helmet for my Pillow, p. 147-208 Roger Clarke. "Roger Clarke's Waltzing Matilda Home-Page"...
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  • Breed for his World War II documentary The War.[citation needed] 2010: HBO used With the Old Breed, along with Robert Leckie's Helmet for My Pillow, as...
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    What do you call the enemy?" "Dogfaces. Leckie, Robert (2010). Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific. New York: Bantam Books. p. 21...
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    recruits attend follow-on training at Lejeune and Pendleton. In Helmet for My Pillow, his World War II memoir, journalist Robert Leckie writes of Marine...
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    Corps from July 1, 1995, to June 30, 1999 Robert Leckie – author of Helmet for My Pillow Gen Peter Pace – former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lewis...
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    Guadalcanal they were still wearing the Kelly Transitional helmet according to the book, 'Helmet for My Pillow'. Joining the 2nd Marine Division in New Zealand...
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    And Remedies, Oregon Institute (1996), pp. 240–248 Leckie, Robert, Helmet For My Pillow, Bantam (1979), pp. 230, 237–238 Kearny, Cresson H. (Major), Jungle...
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    be Unreliable in Combat," ArmyTimes.com article Leckie, Robert, Helmet For My Pillow, Random House, 1957. Nelson, Thomas B., The World's Submachine Guns...
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  • Banner (1918), the Marines discovered the use of motion pictures. In exchange for a favorable portrayal that stimulated recruiting and gave an impressive view...
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    USS Peleliu, an amphibious assault ship named in memory of the battle Helmet for My Pillow, a memoir of the battle written by Robert Leckie The Pacific (miniseries)...
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    during World War II; in later life an author of books including Helmet for My Pillow John A. Lejeune – 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Commanding...
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    a prolific author on military topics including the best-selling Helmet for My Pillow, was wounded while serving in Company H of this unit. Eugene B. Sledge...
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    New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-58875-4. Leckie, Robert (2001). Helmet for my Pillow. Simon & Schuster Inc. ISBN 0-7434-1307-5. Ricks, Thomas E. (5 April...
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    25 September 2024. Frank, Guadalcanal pp. 451, quoting Leckie's Helmet for my Pillow. Miller, The Story of World War II pp. 134–135. Frank, Guadalcanal...
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  • South Pacific (musical) (category Pulitzer Prize for Drama–winning works)
    but former Marine Robert Leckie wrote his memoir of that conflict, Helmet for My Pillow, after he walked out of a performance: "I have to tell the story...
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  • volumes about it, including a powerful and unexpurgated memoir, Helmet for My Pillow, his first book, published in 1957." "Obituary: Pamela Ann McCordruck"...
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  • Robert Schenkkan and Michelle Ashford, Based in part on the books Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie and With The Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge with...
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    The Pioneer Helmet (also known as the Wollaston Helmet or Northamptonshire Helmet) is an Anglo-Saxon boar-crested helmet from the late seventh century...
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    1942, and was awarded one battle star for World War II service. The Pacific is based in part upon Helmet for My Pillow, the memoir of Robert Leckie, a member...
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    Get Out of the Way (Hyperion Books 1995) with Bill Walton; and My Life on a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin’ Utes (Hyperion...
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  • Sobibor by Stanisław Szmajzner. The Pacific is based on the memoirs Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie and With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge, with additional...
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    Together La Habitación Roja – Nuevos Tiempos Plush – Underfed Helmet – Unsung: The Best of Helmet (1991–1997) Scout Niblett – Uptown Top Ranking Mono – Walking...
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    was like all my Halloweens came at once!" A 2014 article on Alice Cooper in The Guardian mentioned Arthur Brown and his flaming helmet, "British rock...
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    known as "battle fatigue", he slept with a loaded handgun under his pillow. He looked for solace in addictive sleeping pills. In his last few years, he was...
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