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Merriell Allesandro Shelton (January 21, 1922 – May 3, 1993) was a United States Marine who served in the Pacific theater during World War II. He is depicted in the 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge which chronicled their combat experiences.
HBO’s series “The Pacific” caused lots of folks to become interested in the life of Merriell “Snafu” Shelton, the character based on a real Marine of the same name. As I’ve written before, the...
".....PFC Merriell Shelton, an excitable, small-statured youngster from south Louisiana who had arrived with the same group of replacements as Burgin and Burke. Shelton was a whiz at poker, but otherwise his primary talents involved getting confused, lost, in trouble, and generally fouled up.
Oct 1, 2023 · The Pacific did not exaggerate the thick Cajun accent from Shelton, better known as “Snafu” and played by future James Bond villain and Freddie Mercury impersonator Rami Malek.
Oct 4, 2023 · Merriell “Snafu” Shelton is portrayed by Rami Malek in The Pacific, and the Marine is known for his role as a mortarman in the Pacific Theater. He enlisted in 1942 and was assigned to K Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.
Pfc. Merriell “Snafu” Shelton got his nickname from his overly confident attitude, and his scrappy fearlessness during battle.
Sep 14, 2023 · In The Pacific, Snafu Shelton steals the gold teeth of dead soldiers to Eugene’s disgust. Why does he do it and how does it connect to the real war?
Shown here are Eugene B. Sledge (right) with Merriell A. "Snafu" Shelton (left) and Paul Wright (middle) at a 1st Marine Division reunion in 1983 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All three men were Marine Corps combat infantrymen in World War II. They fought the Japanese in the Pacific at Peleliu and Okinawa with the 1st Marine Division. Sledge and Snafu were buddies in the mortar platoon of Company K ...
Nov 3, 2023 · The Pacific brutality is even more extreme than Band of Brothers. It doesn't shy away from showing the ill-treatment of the bodies of Japanese soldiers, including a particularly gut-wrenching scene in which Merriell "Snafu" Shelton idly throws pebbles into the open skull of a dead Japanese gunner.
The Pacific miniseries features the 1st Marine Division's battles in the Pacific, such as Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, and Okinawa, as well as Basilone's involvement in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
