However once the condition subsided, his family encouraged him to enroll in college rather than join the military. He went on to serve in the Western European theater, left the Army with the rank of Major and died on September 23, 1985.Įugene was a sickly child and lost two years of schooling due to rheumatic fever and this condition left him with a heart murmur. His older brother, Edward Simmons Sledge II, was born on September 10, 1920, and enlisted in the United States Army. He graduated from Murphy High School in Mobile in the spring of 1942. Biography Early life Įugene Bondurant Sledge was born on November 4, 1923, in Mobile, Alabama, to Edward Simmons Sledge, a physician, and Mary Frank Sturdivant Sledge, dean of women students at Huntingdon College. 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. Eugene Bondurant Sledge (Novem– March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author.
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