[REFERENCE] The Pacific: Real Andy and Eddie

13/04/2020 12:46
slightlytookish: The first example we see of Eddie in his natural habitat: following Andy around and looking at him with hearteyes (TP: Haldane & Jones - Hearteyes No.1)
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I've been poking around Ancestry and found some documents about the real Andrew Haldane and Edward Jones which others may find interesting or useful. You can find the post about it here.

Documents include the census, military and burial records, and a few yearbook pages for Andy. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find as much about Eddie who is somewhat of a man of mystery.

Thank you [personal profile] muccamukk for reminding me to link this here!
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[resource] 1st Marine Report on Cape Gloucester

17/12/2019 09:16
muccamukk: Peggy holds a pencil between her teeth and studies a clipboard. (Cap: Preoccupied)
[personal profile] muccamukk
So I was poking through archive.org (aka the world's most fabulous time sink, please give them money), and found Special action report, Cape Gloucester Operation by 1st Marine Division. I haven't had too much time to look at it yet, but it seems to mostly cover training and planning in the ramp up to the actual mission, but is probably helpful to anyone writing fic set in Melbourne.

Flipping to the end, I found a table of officers dated 1 January 1944, which included in the section for 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment:

Table of officers of Hq. Company, including: "Jones, Edward Allison, 2ndLt., Bn-1; BnPs10, *12Mar43"

Table of officers of "K" Company, including: "Haldane, Andrew Allison, Capt, CO. 20May42"
(The columns are: Name, Rank, Position, Date Left US, and the star/hash means they left the US as an enlisted man.)

First off, how are both their middle names Allison!? I'd heard that they were but assumed it was fake. Because OMG WHAT!?

Secondly, I'm dying to know what Bn-1; BnPs10 means. I'm going under the assumption that it's "We put you here until we find somewhere for you to be," but who knows.

Thirdly, I'm pretty sure the date for when Eddie left the US is a typo, not because it contradicts show canon, but because I'm not entirely sure how someone would get a battlefield commission without having been in a battle.
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[REFERENCE] Ack-Ack & Hillbilly mentions from "Islands of the Damned"

15/11/2019 07:26
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[REFERENCE] Ack Ack & Hillbilly mentions from "With the Old Breed"

03/11/2019 16:47
thrillingdetectivetales: Davie and Alan from the play, Kidnapped, kissing on the moors. Both men's faces are obscured. Davie has a hand on Alan's cheek. (Gene writing)
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In the same vein of the timestamps I shared earlier, some folks expressed an interest in seeing what Sledge's book had to say about Ack Ack and Hillbilly. As such, as I have gone through and pulled all mentions of either man from within the prose of Sledge's book to share here. I didn't include footnotes because the information they included was pretty much already available on Wikipedia.

Be aware that, as the quotations come from the book, they likely contain spoilers.

( Eugene Sledge on Captain Andrew Allison Haldane, a.k.a. “Ack Ack”, Company Commander of K/3/5 )

( Eugene Sledge on 1st Lieutenant Edward A. Jones, a.k.a. “Hillbilly”, Leader of K/3/5’s Machine-Gun Platoon )
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