Eugene Sledge
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Eugene Bondurant Sledge was a United States Marine, university professor, and author. His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during World War II a
Sledge in 1946
Sidney Phillips
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Sidney Clarke Phillips, Jr. was a United States Marine, family practice physician, and author from Mobile, Alabama. He provided source material and interviews for the making of Ken Burns' PBS document
Eugene Sledge
…him to enroll in college rather than join the military, believing that he would become "cannon fodder" as he described it. His close childhood friend Sidney Phillips also wrote to Sledge from Guadalcanal, and urged him not to enlist. In the fall of 1942, Sledge enrolled in the Marion Military Institute, in Marion…
Phillips in 1942
Gravesite of Sidney and Mary Houston Phillips at Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama