As HBO viewers begin drinking in the second half of The Pacific this weekend, they'll see the story line of Marine Eugene B. Sledge really kick in — which means they'll be seeing a lot more of ...

Mobilian Eugene Sledge to be inducted into Alabama Men's Hall of Fame (photos) Photo gallery: HBO's 'The Pacific' a sprawling World War II epic ...

Late in HBO’s World War II miniseries “The Pacific,” there’s a scene in a muddy, devastated Okinawa village in which Pvt. Eugene B. Sledge ( Joseph Mazzello) enters a hut to find a mortally wounded ...

Historian David (Crucible of Hell) recounts in this stirring saga the WWII campaigns of Company K, the 1st Marine Division unit whose exploits at Peleliu and Okinawa were documented by Eugene B.

The terse obituary of "Eugene B. Sledge, Marine Memoirist" [Metro, March 6], author of "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa," triggered memories of my late brother, Douglas, who, as a ...