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Rank: Private First Class

Enlisted: 18 January 1942

MCSN: 351391

Unit 1: Company "H", 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division

Unit 2:Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division

Discharged: 13 September 1945

Decorations: Navy Commendation Medal w/ Combat "V" device, Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon

Robert Leckie saw combat at Guadalcanal, Finsschafen, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu. After being badly wounded on Peleliu in September 1944, he was sent back to the United States. After recovering from his wounds, he spent the rest of the war guarding a submarine base. He was discharged from the Marines in September 1945.

After the war, he returned to his job at the New Jersey newspaper The Bergen Record. He would go on to author over forty books, including his classic World War II memoir: Helmet For My Pillow. This book was one of three that would go on to serve as the basis of the HBO mini-series The Pacific, in which Leckie was portrayed by actor James Badge Dale. The other books on which The Pacific was ba

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Robert Leckie

Born

in Philadelphia, The United States

December 18, 1920

Died

December 24, 2001

Genre

Nonfiction, History, Military History

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Leckie was born on December 18, 1920, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began his career as a writer in high school, as a sports writer for ''The Bergen Evening Record'' in Hackensack, New Jersey.

On January 18, 1942, Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.He served in combat in the Pacific theater, as a scout and a machine gunner in H Company, 2nd Battalion 1st Marines Regiment 1st Marine Division (United States). Leckie saw combat in the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Cape Gloucester, and had been wounded by blast concussion in the Battle of Peleliu. He returned to the United States in March 1945 and was honorably discharged shortly thereafter.

Following World War II, Leckie worked as aLeckie was born on December 18, 1920, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began his career as a writer in high school, as

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Leckie, Robert "Lucky"

Date of birth:: December 18th, 1920 (Philadelphia/Pennsylvania, United States)
Date of death:: December 24th, 2001 (Montville/New Jersey, United States)
Nationality:: American

Biography

Robert Leckie was born December 18th, 1920 in Philadelphia. He grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey and at the age of 16 started a career as a writer as sports editor of the Bergen Evening Record in Hackensack, New Jersey.

December 8th, 1941 he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and was sent to the Pacific to become a machine gunner with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. After being injured on Peleliu he was evacuated to the United States.
After World War Two he worked as a reporter for Associated Press, the Buffalo Courier Express, the New York Journal American, the New York Daily News and the Star-Ledger. He married Vera Keller and the couple had three children. After publication of his best seller "Helmet for my Pillow" about his wartime experiences he wrote more than 40 books on American war history.

Leckie died December 24th