Eugene B. Sledge was born in Mobile November 4, 1923, the grandson of Confederate officers. Bookish and frail as a child, he had been taught to hunt and fish by his physician father and spent much ...

Robert Leckie, (James Badge Dale), Cpl. Eugene Sledge, (Jospeh Mazzello), and GySgt. John Basilone (Jon Seda). The three narrative threads occasionally intersect, and cover events such as the ...