Eugene Sledge, who fought in the Battle of Peleliu ... ways of integrating airpower and covering the vast distances of the Pacific for combat and combat support operations, a far cry from what ...

The Pacific was filmed in 2010 and was based largely on two memoirs from lower enlisted infantrymen. Robert Leckie’s Helmet ...

The three principal roles in The Pacific are played by James Badge Dale (Robert Leckie), Joseph Mazzello (Eugene Sledge), and Jon Seda (John Basilone). The Pacific is in part based on the memoirs of ...

Eugene B. Sledge was born in Mobile November 4, 1923, the grandson of Confederate officers. Bookish and frail as a child, he had been taught to hunt and fish by his physician father and spent much ...