so what do you believe in?

Happy goddamn Monday, Adolf.

Captain Haldane was the finest and most popular officer I ever knew. All of the Marines in Company K shared my feelings. [...] He had a rare combination of intelligence, courage, self-confidence, and compassion that commanded our respect and admiration. We were thankful that Ack Ack was our skipper, felt more secure in it, and felt sorry for other companies not so fortunate. — E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1981)

HBO WWII Rewatch Week 11: Leadership

Actually, I was quite happy to be on my own. Looking out for myself was something I always liked to do. It was the one thing I could do better than anybody else. - David Webster, Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich

Bonus:

ASHTON HOLMES as SIDNEY PHILLIPS » Part One: Guadalcanal (Leckie)

RONNIE GIBSON: A short trajectory of a falling sparrow.

Sparrows (1998) Merab Abramishvili, tempera on plywood, 10,5 x 36,4 cm // Mental Cases (1918) Wilfred Owen // Part One: Guadalcanal (Leckie) // Book 24, The Iliad, Homer (trans. Emily Wilson) // Part Three: Melbourne & Part Four: Cape Gloucester, Pavuvu, Banika, with a quote from Hamlet Act V, Scene 2 // Stanzas found on a leaf of an International Brigaders notebook (mid-1930s), Anonymous // Part Four: Cape Gloucester, Pavuvu, Banika // Johnny Got His Gun (1939), Dalton Trumbo // Part Four: Cape Gloucester, Pavuvu, Banika.

I've been told there's always been one man they could count on. Led them into the Bois Jacques, held them together when they had the crap shelled out of them in the woods. Every day, he kept their spirits up, kept the men focused, gave them direction... all the things a good combat leader does. You don't have any idea who I'm talking about, do you? - No, sir. Hell, it was you, First Sergeant.

MARY HOUSTON PHILLIPS ↳ The Pacific (2010)

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RONNIE GIBSON & SID PHILLIPS in The Pacific (2010) — for @amidnightclear 🦦