| Loudmouth | |
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 Loudmouth on Gloucester | |
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Actor: |
Nathan Corddry |
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Rank: |
Private |
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Battles: |
Battle of Cape Gloucester |
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Status: |
Killed by boulder on Cape Gloucester, 1944 |
Private "Loudmouth" (name unknown) was a replacement in Robert Leckie's platoon.
History[]
Loudmouth is first seen on Cape Gloucester, putting Raleighs in the mouth of a straw figure made to look like a Japanese soldier. He is then seen setting up a tent, and wondering how a Canadian (Lieutenant Lebec) makes it from the ETO to the Pacific.
He would participate in the fight against the Japanese, and later remarked that two men will be missing in the war, himself, and the MP they send after him. One night, in his tent he is reading a propaganda book that portrays Basilone as the hero of Guadalcanal. "Now I know why you don't talk about Guadalcanal. Because John Basilone did it all. Now he's home selling bonds, and dicking blondes," he says.
He is not seen again after that, but it was revealed in Robert Leckie's memoir, Helmet For My Pillow, that he was killed on Gloucester, when a boulder fell and crushed him.
Trivia[]
- His real name is never revealed in the series, or the book.