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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 ...
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.
In his book With the Old Breed, Eugene Sledge describes his experiences in the Battle for Peleliu. One of the final scenes in Parer's War , a 2014 Australian television film, shows the Battle of Peleliu recorded by Damien Parer with his camera at the time of his death.
The Marines named the rebuilt landing strip the “Sledge” runway in honor of a veteran of the Peleliu battle, Pfc. Eugene Sledge, a mortarman on the island who wrote about it in a memoir ...
It primarily centers on the experiences of three Marines (Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge, and John Basilone) who were in different regiments (1st, 5th, and 7th, respectively) of the 1st Marine Division. The episode follows the Division as they prepare for their arrival at the Battle of Peleliu.
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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 ...
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.