![]() Sledge not only wrote as a means by which to exorcise his demons, what we now know to be Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but also to offer his audience a glimpse into the psyche of all of the naïve and gentle young men who sacrificed in the Pacific and suffered at home. It took him more than three decades for him to muster the ability to relate his experience to the public. ![]() This account of the Pacific theater was written from notes taken and thoughts recorded by Sledge during his time on Peleliu and Okinawa. Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. Nothing, however, can substitute for a first-person narrative presented by an enlisted man who fought on the front lines the best of which is E.B. Textbooks, documentaries, and even Hollywood productions have proven to be accurate as to the details of this theater of war. ![]() The documented history of the United States Marines serving in the Pacific during World War II is vast and extremely abundant. ![]()
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