- 8.2/1031 votes
#1 - Peleliu Airfield
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/18/2010
Despite the suffocating 115-degree heat and a lack of clean drinking water, Sledge, Leckie and the other Marines confront the highly-fortified enemy as they attempt to capture the Peleliu airfield. After seeing his comrades badly injured, Leckie himself is wounded and evacuated from the island. Sledge witnesses the shocking truth about what is sometimes required to survive and fight another day.
Director: Tony To
Writer: Robert Schenkkan
- 7.6/1028 votes
#2 - Home
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/16/2010
After the Japanese surrender, Leckie, healed from his wounds, leaves the hospital and returns home, while Sledge heads back to Alabama to be reunited with his family and Sid Phillips. Lena visits Basilone’s home and has an emotional meeting with his family. Leckie adjusts to post-war life by resuming his old job and starting a new relationship, but for Sledge, unsure why he survived the war seemingly unscathed, adjustment will require more time.
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Writer: Robert Schenkkan
- 7.5/1029 votes
#3 - Iwo Jima
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/2/2010
Increasingly frustrated by his role campaigning for war bonds, Basilone convinces the Marines to allow him to train troops headed for combat. Transferred to Camp Pendleton, he enjoys a whirlwind romance with an initially reluctant female Marine, Lena Riggi. But the couple know they are living on borrowed time, as Basilone is soon to take part in the Marine landing on Iwo Jima.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Robert Schenkkan
- 6.9/1035 votes
#4 - Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/4/2010
Finally enlisted as a Marine, Sledge trains for combat at Camp Elliott. The 1st Marine Division lands at Cape Gloucester on the Japanese-held island of New Britain. As Leckie and the other Marines battle the Japanese, they quickly realize that the more ominous enemy is the smothering jungle itself. Having survived Gloucester and stationed on the godforsaken island of Pavuvu, Leckie begins displaying the physical and mental effects of combat and is sent to a naval hospital on nearby Banika for psychiatric observation.
Director: Graham Yost
Writer: Robert Schenkkan
- 5.5/104 votes
#5 - Night Two
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/27/2008
The president has to make a difficult decision and in order to prevent a nuclear disaster that would actually strengthen the "Andromeda Strain", the team have to overcome the building's safeguards aimed at preventing contamination.
Director: Mikael Salomon
Writer: Robert Schenkkan
- 4.6/105 votes
#6 - Night One
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/26/2008
A U.S. army satellite crashes on the outskirts of Piedmont, Utah, population 580, interrupting the awkward sexual foils of two teenagers. The youths decide to take the satellite into town for further inspection.
Director: Mikael Salomon
Writer: Robert Schenkkan