Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author. His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa …

Learn about Eugene Sledge and its unauthorized journal that he later turned into a memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa.

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa is a World War II memoir by United States Marine Eugene Sledge, first published in 1981. The memoir is based on notes Sledge kept tucked …

2020年8月21日 · Exactly 75 years ago this spring, in May and June 1945, Mobile native and U.S. Marine Corps PFC Eugene Bondurant Sledge was fighting on Okinawa as a mortarman with …

2022年11月30日 · Eugene B. Sledge (front row, right) and men of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, fought together through some of the Pacific War’s most …

2024年9月19日 · Eugene B. Sledge in 1982 Mobile native Eugene Sledge (1923-2001) is renowned outside of Alabama largely for his graphic portrayal of combat in the Pacific during …

2020年8月14日 · Eugene B. Sledge beat the odds. He managed to make it through two of the Big One’s bloodiest battles without becoming a physical casualty. After serving on occupation duty …

2024年9月2日 · It wasn’t until February of 1946 that Alabama native and now legendary Marine war veteran Eugene “Sledgehammer” Sledge could return home. Sledge, also known as E.B. …

Henry Sledge is the son of renowned author Eugene Sledge, who wrote With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa and China Marine. While growing up, he witnessed his father’s memoir …

2007年9月25日 · An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous …