Landings of Guadalcanal and Peleliu Begins!

According to Capt. Dale Dye, the military advistor for “Pacific”, the first sequences filmed will be the Marine landings of Guadalcanal and Peleliu. The Captain made an interesting observation about how the beaches of Mossman and Port Douglas (Australia) have an “amazing similarity to the photos we’ve seen of the [real] beaches back during the war.

Here’s a snippet from Dye’s production blog:

Once training is complete, our first mission is to film the unopposed landing on Guadalcanal and then the very heavily opposed landings on Peleliu. Our chosen beach locations up here near Mossman and Port Douglas bear an amazing similarity to the photos we’ve seen of those beaches back during the war. Our Special Effects magicians have made the Peleliu beach look as if it has been pounded by Naval gunfire and we are all set to hit that beach with period LVT-4’s and LCVPs (Higgins Boats)