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Eugene Sledge
Sledge in 1946
Birth name
Eugene Bondurant Sledge
Nickname(s)
Sledgehammer
Born
(1923-11-04)November 4, 1923 Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Died
March 3, 2001(2001-03-03) (aged 77) Montevallo, Alabama, U.S.
Place of burial
Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Marine Corps
Years of service
1942–1946
Rank
Corporal
Unit
K Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division
Battles/wars
World War II
Battle of Peleliu
Battle of Okinawa
Chinese Civil War
Operation Beleaguer
Spouse(s)
Jeanne Arceneaux
(m. 1952)
Children
John Sledge, Henry Sledge
Other work
Professor of biology, author
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 Joseph Mazzello.[1]
^"The Pacific". IMDB. IMDB.com. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author. His 1981 memoir With the Old...
depicted in the 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by EugeneSledge which chronicled their combat experiences. He was also depicted in the...
War II memoir by United States Marine EugeneSledge, first published in 1981. The memoir is based on notes Sledge kept tucked away in a pocket-sized Bible...
roles as Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park, Roarke Hartman in The River Wild, EugeneSledge in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, Dustin Moskovitz in The Social Network...
School, where Phillips graduated in 1941. He was childhood friends with EugeneSledge. After graduating from high school, Phillips enlisted in the U.S. Marine...
fought in the Pacific War at Cape Gloucester, then alongside his friends EugeneSledge and Merriell "Snafu" Shelton, on Peleliu, and Okinawa. Burgin was promoted...
writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts. EugeneSledge relates a few instances of fellow marines extracting gold teeth from...
portrayed by actor Scott Gibson in the 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific. EugeneSledge, a mortar-man in Company K, describes what happened to his company's...
USMC. Served with 16th Company, 3rd Battalion during World War I. EugeneSledge, corporal, USMC. Served with 3rd Battalion during World War II. Laurence...
(2010) was adapted in large part from Helmet for My Pillow, along with EugeneSledge's With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, and the personal story...
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