With the Old Breed

In memory of Eugene B. Sledge (1921 - 2001) who served in the Hell that was the Pacific Theater of World War II.

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Film & Animation

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• World
• War
• II
• With
• the
• Old
• Breed
• Eugene
• Sledge
• documentary
• experimental
• interview
• short
• film

[RuarkReader]

"we had created bad relations with the Japanese prior to the incident."

Japan created its own bad relations with America. Japan invaded China, committed unspeakable atrocities during the rape of Nanking, and later sunk the USS Panay. To call Japan's subsequent attack on Pearl Harbor killing more than 2,400 Americans "an incident" is surreal in its understatement. Japan's own brutal expansionist policies begged for war -- and they got one.

[thedamned38]

"With The Old Breed" was the first book ive ever read that truly shocked me while reading it to where i had to stop in the middle of reading just to contemplate the shock of the words i just read. amazing book, i feel that now that ive read it, ive changed some of my outlooks on war. i have nothing but the utmost respect for these men. They deserve the attention of everyone for what they sacrificed

[usmc7242]

@RuarkReader for those who say WE asked for Pearl Harbor, let them google just how many countries Japan attacked on December 7-10 of 1941

It was a LOT more than Pearl Harbor

[usmc7242]

@SirFrancealot did you read what you typed??If the Japanese could STAY??

The Japanese were throwign babies in the air and catching them on their bayonets in nanking, they were slaughtering Chinese daily...so, lets let them make slaves of hundreds of millions so they can expand across the Pacific like they planned to do after we were defeated??

You are either too young to know or historically ignorant

[73sooners]

@liljgoneman Yes Sir. Hugh is Stephen's son! Blessings to you.

[liljgoneman]

@73sooners Is hugh by chance related to Stephen Ambrose? I recall a book on Iwo Jima i read years ago by Stephen. Horrifying book!

[chriswk2004]

It's such a hard time for us. But thanks God, Japsy eventually lost and peace will goes on.

[RuarkReader]

@SirFrancealot You have got to be kidding. The Nanking Massacre extended into 1938. In October 1938, after months of bombing, the city of Canton was captured. By July 1939, Japanese fought the Soviets along the Manchurian border. In 1940, Japan initiated the "Kill All", "Burn All", and "Loot All" Policy (which killed 2.7 million civilians) in China, and also invaded French Indochina. To fault America for Pearl Harbor, in the face of Japan's monsterous aggression, is blaming the victim.

[pdhudsonUSMC]

@MikeMallorca2010 This was also reported in Flags of our Fathers.  The author's, James Bradley's, father refused to forgive the Japanese peopel for incidents such as that on Iwo Jima.

[SirFrancealot]

@RuarkReader There's no question that Japanese imperialism was the biggest contributing factor in the onset of the Pacific war but it would be overly simplistic to say that America wasn't at fault at all. After 1937 subsequent Japanese leaders were all willing to sue for peace if their forces could remain in China but Cordell Hull and FDR, arrogantly assuming the Japanese wouldn't dare to attack America, presented them with hard-line ultimatums instead of trying to find a diplomatic compromise.

[halodude178]

wow i read the book on kindle i dont think it was the book it was very short and all it was saying about Eugene not anything he said...

[Toddinfantry]

@WunderDoob Point of clarity...Basilone was not killed by a direct hit from arty, or by mortar shrapnel as many think. Graves registration recovered Basilones's body and recorded three bullet hits. His official death report lists three bullet wounds. The book The Pacific, which was heavily researched, claimed three bullet hits. Basilone's remaining artifacts are in the Museum of the Marines....go take a look. Three bullets, lower left torso, groin, and left arm (almost severed).

Semper Fi !