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Title Eugene B. Sledge Collection
Archive SDC
Plugin edu.auburn.SledgePapersPlugin by Auburn University
Base URL http://digdata1.lib.auburn.edu/numphotos/Sledge%20Papers/
Description This collection consists of materials on the life and career of Eugene B. Sledge. Born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1923, E. B. Sledge enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 and saw combat on Peleliu and Okinawa. After the war he obtained degrees in biology and botany at Auburn and the University of Florida and taught for many years at the University of Montevallo. In 1981, Dr. Sledge published an account of his experiences during the Second World War in a book entitled "With the Old Breed: at Peleliu and Okinawa". "With the Old Breed" is now widely recognized as a classic war memoir. Dr. Sledge died on March 3, 2001. A second memoir, "China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II", was published posthumously in 2002.
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Alternative ebsledge
AccrualPeriodicity quarterly
AccrualPolicy Periodic additions to collection from Sledge family
AccessRights unrestricted
Creator Auburn University Libraries
Description This collection consists of materials on the life and career of Eugene B. Sledge. Born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1923, E. B. Sledge enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 and saw combat on Peleliu and Okinawa. After the war he obtained degrees in biology and botany at Auburn and the University of Florida and taught for many years at the University of Montevallo. In 1981, Dr. Sledge published an account of his experiences during the Second World War in a book entitled "With the Old Breed: at Peleliu and Okinawa". "With the Old Breed" is now widely recognized as a classic war memoir. Dr. Sledge died on March 3, 2001. A second memoir, "China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II", was published posthumously in 2002.
Extent 3000000000
Format text/plain
Format image/jpeg
Language eng
Publisher Auburn
Rights Images are the property of the Auburn University Libraries and are intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archive@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732.
Spatial Mobile (Ala.)
Spatial Palau -- Peleliu Island
Spatial Japan --Okinawa Island
Spatial Montevallo (Ala.)
Temporal 1920-1990 
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