Better On The Pacific Theater: Character Analysis

In the beginning of each episode they have brief interviews with the surviving members of the marines and they discuss what will be shown in each episode with maps, images, and videos. This really helps create a setting for the show and it also gives you a little background information they can’t explain while they are showing the actors portraying the characters.This television series helped me understand WWII better on the Pacific Theater because that was its main focus. I feel like I really got a better understanding of how emotionally draining fighting in a war is because looking at those soldiers they really couldn’t give up no matter what happened they felt like the needed to help but, at the same time they just wanted to leave. I also learned that the battle of Peleliu was pretty much disregarded and forgotten about even though a lot of men had suffered and it had the most deaths in U.S. history. …show more content…
The islands that these marines were on had living horrible conditions and they often got sick with diseases like malaria, the only place they didn’t find malaria on was Pavuvu. Pavuvu, though didn’t have any malaria, was full of rotten coconuts and crabs so the first job of the marines was to clear out anything that prevented them from setting up and creating camp. I also learned that because of rain and humidity many of the marines supplies got destroyed in Cape Glouster. I also learned that between 1942-1943 the marines had traveled down to Australia as a way to gain back strength before going off and fighting once again. This war was really devastating for many people and I learned so much things about how horrible the war was on the human body and food and it was definitely hard to live