6/11/2023 0 Comments Eugene b sledge with the old breedIn the book, Sledge gets his nickname way back to at least when he was in New Caledonia, some time before his initial arrival in Pavuvu. In the series, Sledge gets his nickname from " Snafu" just after the Marines capture the airfield.It was released under it's final title in 1981 by the Presidio Press. Working titles included A Marine Mortarman in World War II and Into the Abyss. After the war, he would compile the notes, and write his memoirs with the support of his wife and editors. The book started as various notes that Sledge had written throughout his time in combat, starting from Pavuvu. Decades later, the memoir would become one of the main sources of the HBO series, The Pacific. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa is a famous first-person account written by Eugene Sledge during and after the war.
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