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Eugene Sledge

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Mar 3, 2001
Zodiac
Scorpio
Born in
Alabama
About
His descriptions of combat in World War II formed the basis of both the PBS documentary, The War, and the popular HBO miniseries, The Pacific. His published works include With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1981) and China Marine (published posthumously in 2002).
Family
He grew up in Mobile, Alabama. His father was Edward Simmons Sledge, a physician.

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