Sid Phillips (author of You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War and major character in the HBO mini-series The Pacific) recalls seeing his good friend from Mobile, Alabama after being separated for months. Sledge had just arrived in the Pacific and Phillips had fought at Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester and was about to go home. He also mentions, towards the end of the clip, the terrible conditions the Marines had to put up with on Pavuvu.
"If you were in the 1st Marine Division and you ever were stationed on Pavuvu, you never forgot it. It was a real miserable place, with millions and millions of land crabs and rats and the whole place was filled with...it was an old coconut plantation, and it had been neglected for the whole war and we spent most of our time cleaning up Pavuvu while we were there."
I think Mr. Phillips was going to say the island was "...filled with rotting coconuts..." but worded it in a different way.
Sid Phillips Website
The Pacific - HBO
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