Roughly half of the $150 million epic, which begins airing March 14, is drawn from the combat memoir "With the Old Breed," written by Sledge's late father, Eugene Sledge of Montevallo, about the ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- The story of the war America fought in the Pacific is coming to life through the eyes of the late Eugene Sledge, a native of Mobile and author of "With the Old Breed." The book is a ...

HOOVER, Ala. (WTVM) - A piece of American war history is now rebuilt decades later. The World War II-era Japanese airfield on a Pacific Island is now named after a Marine hero from Alabama. Henry ...

ONE MILLION STEPS: A MARINE PLATOON AT WAR By Bing West Random House, $27, 320 pages Perhaps the definitive account of Marine Corps infantry in combat is Eugene Sledge’s “With the Old Breed,” a report ...

AUBURN | HBO and executive producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are bringing Pfc. Eugene B. Sledge's story to TV as part of their series, “The Pacific.” The 10-part series follows the lives of ...

Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author. His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his ...