Like Eugene Sledge, Phillips is a character in "The Pacific," an HBO miniseries set partially in Mobile. "Dad had a quiet faith. Obviously, he kept notes in his Bible," Sledge said, ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

Roughly half of the $150 million epic, which begins airing March 14, is drawn from the combat memoir "With the Old Breed," written by Sledge's late father, Eugene Sledge of Montevallo, about the ...

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; ...

Eugene Sledge’s family was so moved by Joe Mazzello’s performance in “The Pacific,” they sent the actor the soldier’s pipe.

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 ...

Eugene Sledge is on Peleliu now, looking down into the nightmare the 1st Marine Division didn't realize it was walking into. He may not understand everything that Sid and Leckie and the rest ...

The Sledge of Okinawa is unrecognizable from the eager Alabama boy who couldn’t wait to go to war and prove his manhood, or the nervous boot on Pavuvu, or even the Pepeliu vet who inherited ...

The US Marines named the rebuilt landing strip the “Sledge” runway in honor of Alabama native, veteran and hero of the Peleliu battle, PFC Eugene Sledge.

Henry Sledge is very proud of his father, Eugene Sledge, who fought in one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of World War II. “The memoir that he wrote, ...

Byron Cleveland Hastings OBITUARY Byron Cleveland Hastings passed away at home on April 28,2024. Cleveland was born on September 2, 1964 to Tevis Sandorskii and Eugene Sledge in Richmond, Virginia.