Eugene Sledge describes landing at Peleliu (from the film 'Peleliu 1944: Horror in the Pacific')

http://www.AmericanHeroFilm.com Eugene Sledge describes landing at Peleliu in the documentary film 'Peleliu 1944: Horror in the Pacific'. Find out more at http://www.AmericanHeroFilm.com . E.B. Sledge is the author of With Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, the basis, in part, for both Ken Burns World War 2 documentary, 'The War', and the upcoming HBO miniseries, 'The Pacific'.

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• the pacific
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[1815ish]

Respect!

[TakeyoLifebitch]

@StonewallJackson26 iwo jima man, thats all i can say

[ww2guy100]

gotta say SLEDGEHAMMER like snafu SLEDGEHAMMA your book is the reason i study the war and i always wanted to somehow serve in ww2 but i was wrong you saw things that scare a person for life with the old breed made me relize that war is not a game you wrote the best book i ever read most books were written be people who were not in the war and wrote of shows but you were thare and had knowlage i cant spell goOD but i can name many battles because of with the old breeD thanks slegedhammer R.I.P

[DevotionNMotion]

no greater love then this that a man is willing to lay down his life for a friend. The Pacific was a great series and lead me to watch this and many others. So proud of the sacrifice the marines and others took. It upsets me that veterans today are given the short end of the stick. Thank You

[AUG351]

@StonewallJackson26 That or Okinawa, at Okinawa the Marines lossed 3,450 killed and 15,723 wounded and overall American lossed were 7,374 killed, 31,807 wounded and 239 missing in action which would be including Navy and Army personnel.

[nightfrog205]

The sad thing is that Pelelu was not even needed as an Island base,it could have been by passed,that stupid decision cost the Whole Marine 1st Div.How Sledge,or any of those men came back and lived a normal life shows why we call them the greatest generation!!

[peterm3964]

The Greatest Generation . No doubt about that . I am a student of the Pacific campaigns . My Father was bombing Jap barges full of Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) Marines as they landed on Malayan peninsular This occurred simultaneous to the Pearl Harbour attack , and his Australian Lockheed Hudson sank the first Jap Ship of the Pacific war . He was twenty years old . His Name Is CHARLES PARK MILLS . I salute all the men whose character was forged in the fires of the Pacific Campaign .

[rory5877]

@TheChuck624 Just reading it now and its incredible,He brings home the Horror and Suffering more so than any other War Book I have read.The Survivors certainly earned their Peace.

[wadyano]

@TheChuck624 wars are fought differently today. they don't do trench warfare and they don't deploy troops in the thousands like that. attacks are target specific and usually done by units of about 30 men, not 10,000. living conditions are far better as well, sanitation, food, lighter equipment...its no picnic but its not the wholesale slaughter eugene and his buddies were send into and it doesn't approcah the level of inhumanity the ww2 troops endured.

[aMarinedaughter]

I lived on E. Peleliu Dr. at Camp LeJeune, NC as a child, from 1960-63. I wish I had known where that name came from, at the time. I very much appreciate the sacrifices of marines like Eugene Sledge in WWII. Living with the memories of that trip through hell, for the rest of their lives, was part of the sacrifice, too. I am also that writing about it, so that others could continue to learn from it, required him to reopen emotional wounds that were partially scarred over. That is courage!