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 ...
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Marines make first landing on renovated WWII airfield in the PacificThe "Sledge" title is in honor of its namesake, Pfc. Eugene Sledge, who fought in the Battle of Peleliu with the 1st Marine Division and later authored one of the key Marine memoirs of the war ...
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"The Pacific" vs. "Band of Brothers": Which World War II Show Is the Best?Robert Leckie’s Helmet for My Pillow and Eugene Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. The showrunners also ...
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 ...
Eugene Sledge, unable to enlist because of a heart murmur, says farewell to his best friend, Sidney Phillips, who is about to leave for boot camp. Exactly eight months after Pearl Harbor, the 1st ...
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