The Pacific follows the intertwined journeys of three US Marines - Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone, across the vast canvas of the Pacific during WW2. From their first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, through the rain forests of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Peleliu, across the bloody sands of Iwo Jima, and through the horror of Okinawa, and finally to their triumphant but uneasy return home after V-J Day...