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The following morning, Basilone searches the jungle and discovers Rodriguez has been killed. In Mobile, Sledge tells his father that he is enlisting despite his heart murmur. His father expresses concern for the kind of man his son will become when he witnesses the horrors of war, recalling the pain of the World War I survivors he treated. As ...
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 following day at Mobile, Alabama, Eugene Sledge visits his childhood friend, Sidney Phillips, who will be leaving soon for the Marines. Sledge also tried to join, but his heart murmur and his father’s disapproval prevents him from enlisting. In August 1942, the Guadalcanal campaign begins. Leckie is assigned along with his colleagues ...
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There, Sledge reunites with Phillips, but Phillips informs him that he is already leaving to go back home. As he is pushed by Captain Andrew Haldane and 1st Lieutenant Edward "Hillbilly" Jones, Sledge bonds with Leckie, who gives him advice. In September 1944, the Division moves to Peleliu, where they will fight to capture the airfield from Japan.
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 Basilone's insatisfaction with his post-war status, and his decision to become involved again with the Marines.
Scott Glenn was so charmed by his “Eugene the Marine” co-star Jim Gaffigan that while filming a particularly wild fight scene, the 85-year-old modified a stunt so he didn’t accidentally kill ...
In an encore “20/20” airing Dec. 27 at 9 p.m. ET, the show, which originally aired in 2023, tells the story of Julie Jensen, the mother of two who was found dead in her bed in 1998.