◗ Home-Screen Hits Top and middle: Amphibious landings posed a variety of challenges for the filmmakers, who shot these scenes in Far North Queensland, Australia. Bottom left: Soldiers move between their Higgins boat and a destroyer. Bottom right: Filming the scene onstage. quarry in the You Yangs. It was here that production designer Anthony Pratt — “the brilliant Anthony Pratt,” as both Windon and Adefarasin repeatedly refer to him — designed and built not only Peleliu, but also Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Pavuvu, the hospital on Banika, Camp Pendleton and a dozen other outdoor sets. The landing on Peleliu marks the introduction to combat for Pvt. Eugene Sledge ( Joe Mazzello). Adefarasin and episode director Carl Franklin designed March 2010 American Cinematographer