The Auburn University Digital Library hosts a pretty fantastic collection on Eugene Sledge. Drop and by and browse/read about the life and times of a complicated and interesting man.
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For you folks surfing in looking for Eugene Sledge info, check this review of his book, With the Old Breed-At Peleliu and Okinawa. It’s a shameless plug to a review by a pretty talented writer at the DB. Enjoy.
Additionally, I took this photo at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in VA [...]
Two articles on Ken Burns’ The War appeared in today’s Washington Post. The first is a lengthy review here by Rich Atkinson and the other is a feature-length piece (by Paul Farhi) on one of the men in the documentary, Quentin Aanenson. Both articles aptly set the tone for those ready to wade [...]