MOBILE, Ala. -- The story of the war America fought in the Pacific is coming to life through the eyes of the late Eugene Sledge, a native of Mobile and author of "With the Old Breed." The book is a ...
MOBILE, Alabama – The late author, educator and World War II veteran Eugene Bondurant Sledge will be inducted into the Alabama Men's Hall of Fame later this year. Sledge, who died in 2001, was the ...
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The Price of Victory

As Okinawa descended into a war of attrition, both sides paid a devastating price. Tens of thousands of soldiers and ...
Eugene Sledge was a doctor's son from Mobile, Alabama, who spent most of his life as a professor of biology. He was in his 60s when he dusted down a fragmentary diary of his youth as a U.S. Marine, ...
Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda and James Badge Dale carried most of the "The Pacific" campaign through four episodes, as Eugene Sledge, John Basilone and Robert Leckie, respectively. Enter Rami Malek as ...