He graduated from Murphy High
Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, – March 3, ) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author. His 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 (), as well as the HBO. Author EB Sledge chronicled his World Eugene B. Sledge in Mobile native Eugene Sledge () is renowned outside of Alabama largely for his graphic portrayal of combat in the Pacific during World War II, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.
With the Old Breed, at Learn about Eugene Sledge and its unauthorized journal that he later turned into a memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa.
My high level summary, key This collection consists of materials on the life and career of Eugene B. Sledge. Eugene Bondurant Sledge was born on November 4, in Mobile, Alabama. He graduated from Murphy High School in Mobile in May and entered Marion Military Institute (MMI) in Marion, Alabama, that fall.
It is by turns E.B.’s nickname — “Sledgehammer” — belied his slight lb build and demeanor. The son of a prominent physician back in Alabama, the shy, intelligent year-old might have been mistaken for a poor young man who had been drafted into the military and found himself in over his head as a grunt.
Author E. B. Sledge As a young man from Alabama in the early s, Sledge initially entered the V program with the idea of becoming a Marine Corps officer, but his heart wasn’t in it. He wanted to be where the action was rather than whiling away many months back home in the States, so he dropped out of school and enlisted as a private in the spring of
Studs Terkel interviewed the This collection of materials, (bulk ), related to the military service and academic career of Eugene B. Sledge consists of correspondence, clippings, articles, book reviews, journals, drawings, photographs, slides, video cassettes, memorabilia, awards, and artifacts.
E. B. “Sledgehammer” Sledge (1923–2001) China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II is the second memoir written by United States Marine Corporal Eugene B. Sledge, published posthumously with foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose, without subtitle, on May 10, by University of Alabama Press [1] It was republished in paperback with the full title by Oxford University Press in July [2].