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Basiloneʼs celebrity grows as he travels across the country on the war bonds tour. On Pavuvu, Sledge, assigned to the 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, is briefly reunited with Phillips and Leckie rejoins his company. Sledge then gets his first taste of combat as he, Leckie, and the rest of the 1st Marine Division meet fierce Japanese resistance while landing on the intricately and heavily defended coral island of Peleliu. Written by
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Eugene B. Sledge:
Sid... what's it like?
PFC Sidney Phillips:
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after a pause]
I slept with a woman in Melbourne. I'm not braggin', but that's at one end, right?
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points down the beach]
PFC Sidney Phillips:
And then way down there, as far as you can go, that's what it's like. And that... that you can never imagine.
Eugene B. Sledge:
Okay.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
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