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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 chronicled his combat experiences during World War II and was used as source material for the Ken Burns PBS documentary The War (2007), as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), in which he is portrayed by ...
The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II by the US military, was fought between the United States and Japan during the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign of World War II, from 15 September to 27 November 1944, on the island of Peleliu.
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 away in a pocket-sized Bible he carried with him during battles he fought at Peleliu and Okinawa.
Marine Corps aircraft lands on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, and a possible basing option to counter China.
Eugene Sledge, a mortar-man in Company K, describes what happened to his company's commander in his book, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa: At the time of Captain Haldane's death, the bulk of Company K was operating with its parent battalion on Hill 140 within the Umurbrogol Pocket. In an attempt to orient himself to the strange ...
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In September 1944, the Division moves to Peleliu, where they will fight to capture the airfield from Japan. Sledge and the 5th Regiment arrive through a Landing Vehicle Tracked at the beach, where they are struggling to make their way due to the Japanese defense. A scared Sledge barely hits land, as other soldiers of the regiment are gunned down.
He almost removes the gold teeth from a dead Japanese soldier, until Snafu points out the germs inside them, prompting Sledge to instead take his insignia. With the unit finally winning the airfield, they depart the island. In Pavuvu, Sledge is still disturbed by the events at Peleliu, and decides to join his unit in swimming naked at the beach.