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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...
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Snafu was born in Louisiana in January 21, 1922. During his early life, he worked as an HVAC technician until serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps, then eventually enlisted in the Marines. He was the youngest child of Joseph Price Shelton and Ann/Anna Shelton (previously Sherwood.) Merriell had four older brothers and one older sister.
".....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. He would argue about anything at the slightest opportuni...
Snafu's personality in the series is primarily based on Sledge's descriptions of marines' disturbing trophy making in his memoirs.Snafu was a Cape Gloucester veteran before episode 5, as seen in many scenes.The real Snafu Shelton bears a slight resemblance to Ira Hayes, the Pima flag raiser who fought on Iwo Jima.- Eugene Sledge. The man eventually nicknamed “Sledgehammer” was, as the show depicted, a sickly guy from Mobile, Alabama. His health conditions initially kept him out of the war; his brother went on to fight in the Army in Europe.
- Robert Leckie. Depicted on screen as a smart but working class grunt in the war by James Badge Dale, Robert Leckie was in many ways that in real life, by his own admission.
- John Basilone. If there is a third central character in The Pacific, it was Basilone (played by Jon Seda). By the time of World War II, the Buffalo, New York-born Basilone had already served three years in the Army in the Philippines.
- Merriell Shelton. 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.
1 day ago · Merriell "Snafu" Shelton, portrayed by Rami Malek in The Pacific, was a mortarman in the Pacific Theater. He enlisted in 1942 and was assigned to K Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st ...
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.
Oct 4, 2023 · The web page does not mention Merriell Shelton, a female Marine who served in WWII. It focuses on the real-life US Marines behind the characters of the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
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