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  2. Merriell Shelton - Wikipedia

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    Merriell Allesandro "Snafu" Shelton (January 21, 1922 – May 3, 1993) was a United States Marine who served in the Pacific theater during World War II.He is depicted in the 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge which chronicled their combat experiences.

  3. Eugene Sledge - Wikipedia

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    Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author.His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during World War II and was used as source material for the Ken Burns PBS documentary The War (2007), as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), in which he is portrayed by ...

  4. Sandra Ávila Beltrán - Wikipedia

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    Sandra Ávila Beltrán (born 16 October 1960) is a Mexican drug lord, dubbed "La Reina del Pacífico" (The Queen of the Pacific) by the media. [1] [2] [3] She was arrested on September 28, 2007, and was charged with organized crime and conspiracy to drug trafficking. [1]

  5. Robert Leckie (author) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Hugh Leckie (December 18, 1920 – December 24, 2001) was a United States Marine and an author of books about the military history of the United States, Catholic history and culture, sports books, fiction books, autobiographies, and children's books.

  6. The Pacific (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific is a 2010 American war drama miniseries produced by HBO, Playtone, and DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14, 2010. The series is a companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers and focuses on the United States Marine Corps 's actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations within the wider Pacific War .

  7. Romus Burgin - Wikipedia

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    Burgin joined the United States Marine Corps on November 13, 1942, during World War II and was assigned to the 9th Replacement Battalion. He soon became a mortarman in K-Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division (K/3/5), [1] and fought in the Pacific War at Cape Gloucester, [1] then alongside his friends Eugene Sledge and Merriell "Snafu" Shelton, [1] on Peleliu, [1] and Okinawa.

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  9. Tongan castaways - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] During the feasts, the families of the castaway boys promised to teach Warner the secrets of how and where to fish for the Pacific spiny lobster, [11] and Warner was given a royal concession to trap the spiny lobster in Tongan waters as a reward for rescuing the group, [5] [6] befriending King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV. [12]