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Listed here is among the most fascinating first person records actually in the future out-of World-War II. John Leckie recruited in america Marine Corps in January 1942, soon after japan attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from simple training on Parris Island, Sc, completely to the raging battles in the Pacific, a few of the war’s fiercest fighting happened where. Recounting his support with the first Marine Division and the raw action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no depth of the disasters and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished picture of how actual players are created, fight, and frequently die in the protection of the country.     In the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the dangers of jungle combat against an enemy determined to fight to the final guy, Leckie explains what war is truly like when success can just only be calculated inch by bloody inch.