![]() ![]() ![]() 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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