Robert Leckie

December 18, 1920 – December 24, 2001

一等兵

2nd Battalion 1st Marines

参加过的战役：

* Battle of Guadalcanal

* Battle of Cape Gloucester

* Battle of Peleliu

奖励：

Purple Heart紫心勋章

Navy & MC Commendation Medal

介绍：

Leckie was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 18, 1920 to an Irish Catholic family of eight children. He grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began his professional writing career, before World War II, at age 16 as a sports writer for The Record of Hackensack in Hackensack.

In 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He served in combat in the Pacific theater, as a scout and a machine gunner in the 1st Marine Division. He participated in every major 1st Marine Division campaign except Okinawa.

Following World War II, Leckie worked as a reporter for the Associated Press, the Buffalo Courier-Express, the New York Journal American, the New York Daily News and The Star-Ledger. His first and best-selling book, Helmet for My Pillow, a personal war memoir, was published in 1957. Leckie subsequently wrote more than 40 books on American war history, spanning from the French and Indian War (1754–1763) to Desert Storm (1991).

In April 2007, it was announced that Leckie's war memoirs, Helmet for My Pillow, along with Eugene B. Sledge's book With the Old Breed, would form the basis for the HBO series The Pacific, the successor to Band of Brothers

Leckie1920年生于费城一个爱尔兰籍天主教家庭，是8个兄弟姐妹中最小的一个。他在拉瑟福德长大，并在新泽西找到了他的第一份关于橄榄球的写作的活儿。Leckie进入纽约大学学习。在日本偷袭珍珠港之后，Leckie加入了海军陆战队。他被编在海军1师2团，成为了一名重型机枪手。他在二战服役三年，经过了不少血腥之战。他曾获得五枚战星奖章，四次总统部队嘉奖，一枚紫心勋章和一枚海陆嘉奖奖章。

二战后他成为一名作家，为美联社，纽约每日新闻报，一些纪录片撰稿，并且曾经是米高梅公司新闻纪录短片的编辑。除了'Helmet For My Pillow'外，他还撰写过不少二战和海军陆战队相关的书籍。斯皮尔伯格评价Leckie是剧中内心最复杂的人物。