Kevin Bacon

as Robert Sherrod

Corbin Bleu

as Eddie W. Robinson / Sgt. Dan Levin

Patricia Clarkson

as Marguerite Higgins

Kevin Connolly

as Donald Sanborn / Pvt. Raymond Howell

James Cromwell

as Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift / Fleet Admiral William Halsey

Blythe Danner

as Elsa Maxwell

Viola Davis

as Hortense Johnson

Jesse Eisenberg

as Lt. Fiske Hanley / Sgt. Benjamin McKinney

John Goodman

as Capt. Edwin Simmons

Tom Hanks

as Narrator

Neil Patrick Harris

as 1st Lt. David Hettema / Sgt. William Manchester

Kevin Jonas

as Mike Mervosh

Tom Kane

as Edward R. Murrow

Justin Long

as Corp. James R. Garrett / Sgt. John H. Morris

Tobey Maguire

as Pvt. George Strang

Joseph Mazzello

as Eugene B. Sledge

Daran Norris

as 1940s Newscaster

Wendell Pierce

as Sgt. Thomas McPhatter

Chris Pine

as Hanson Baldwin / Sgt. Bill Reed

Brad Pitt

as Sgt. Bill Mauldin

William Sadler

as Lt. Colonel Lewis B. 'Chesty' Puller

Gary Sinise

as Ernie Pyle

Elijah Wood

as Corp. Wilfred Hanson / Capt. John C. Chapin