兵士たちは、銃弾が飛び交う中、仲間の様々な死を否応なく見せつけられ次第に人間性を失い疲弊していく。死への恐怖、極度の欠乏と気力・体力を消耗させる気候、終わりの見えない激戦の中で兵士たちはそれぞれの想いを胸に戦い続ける。 戦争で負った心の傷は消えることがあるのだろうか。現実を浮き彫りにし、「戦争」が人間から何を奪うかを真に問う。 本作は、実話に基づいたストーリーで、第二次世界大戦の太平洋戦線を舞台に、実在した3人の海兵隊員の胸に刺さる実体験を基にしたドラマがリアルな描写で全10話に渡り描かれる。
監督・制作: Bruce C. McKenna
脚本: Eugene Sledge / Chuck Tatum / Robert Leckie
制作会社: HBO / DreamWorks Television / Playtone
Well, it is no where as good as Band of Brothers, but the focus is too different. It doesn't stay on a single company and because of that, you kind of don't get what you expected... ...and what you expected is Band of Brothers in the Pacific theater and, well, without the same company to follow through the war, it doesn't give you that feel of brotherhood that made Band of Brothers so loved. However, you do get a sense of how brutal it was, much more so than the European theater. And that is another source of complaints. People thought it was carnage candy when, the Pacific was actually just carnage. So, really, its a misunderstood cousin.
