Box 3
Container
Contains 41 Results:
Correspondence with William J. Leyden; including correspondence concerning his VA claim; photocopy of "The Hell that was Peleliu" from Saga (June 1967), 1982 - 1995
File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: 96-38
Scope and Contents
From the Accession:
This collection contains notebooks, memorandums, Marine Corps records, and a portion of the original outline that formed the basis for With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Sledge's memoir of his service in those campaigns during World War II. Many letters to Sledge commenting on With the Old Breed contain wartime remininscences of soldiers who also served in the Pacific in World War II. The collection includes photographs including...
Dates:
1982 - 1995
Clippings: articles by Bob Tutt, James Spotswood, John F. Wukovits, 1970 - 1995
File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: 96-38
Scope and Contents
"Okinawa Invasion Recalled" by James Spotswood, Birmingham News March 19, 1970;
World War II, November 1995 containing "Okinawa's Bloody Conquest" by John F. Wukovits;
"Ex-Marines Recall Muddy, Bloody Fight for Okinawa in '45" by Bob Tutt from the Houston Chronicle 4-1-95;
"Cakewalk Turned Out to Be Bloody Fight in Pacific War" by Bob Tutt from the Houston Chronicle 9-24-94;
"Sketches in the Trenches" by Bob...
Dates:
1970 - 1995
"The Beginning of the End" by Brig. Gen. Austin Shofner, USMC (Ret.), a manuscript concerning Marines in the Pacific, December 1941
File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Identifier: 96-38
Scope and Contents
From the Accession:
This collection contains notebooks, memorandums, Marine Corps records, and a portion of the original outline that formed the basis for With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Sledge's memoir of his service in those campaigns during World War II. Many letters to Sledge commenting on With the Old Breed contain wartime remininscences of soldiers who also served in the Pacific in World War II. The collection includes photographs including...
Dates:
December 1941
Clippings and correspondence regarding atomic bombs, 1990 - 1995
File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: 96-38
Scope and Contents
"Hammering the Enemy" by Frank Mastin, Jr. from the Montgomery Advertiser 9-2-95, letter from Frank Mastin, Jr. to E. B. Sledge 9-5-95;
"Japanese Vets Weep as They Visit WWII's 'Death Railway'" by Sheila McNulty from The Birmingham News 11-30-94;
"50 Years Later, Okinawa Seeks a New Peace" by Gidget Funetes from Navy Times 6-26-95;
"WWII Historian Seeks Reckoning for Japanese" by Ken Ringle 3-17-95;
"A-Bomb Wasn't a...
Dates:
1990 - 1995
Letters concerning the Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit, 1995
File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: 96-38
Scope and Contents
From the Accession:
This collection contains notebooks, memorandums, Marine Corps records, and a portion of the original outline that formed the basis for With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Sledge's memoir of his service in those campaigns during World War II. Many letters to Sledge commenting on With the Old Breed contain wartime remininscences of soldiers who also served in the Pacific in World War II. The collection includes photographs including...
Dates:
1995
"Peleliu 1944: Why Did We Go There?" by Eugene B. Sledge, from Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute; rough drafts; correspondence; etc., September 1994
File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
Identifier: 96-38
Scope and Contents
From the Accession:
This collection contains notebooks, memorandums, Marine Corps records, and a portion of the original outline that formed the basis for With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Sledge's memoir of his service in those campaigns during World War II. Many letters to Sledge commenting on With the Old Breed contain wartime remininscences of soldiers who also served in the Pacific in World War II. The collection includes photographs including...
Dates:
Publication: September 1994
Newsweek containing a review of With the Old Breed, September 4, 1989
File — Box: 3, Folder: 15
Identifier: 96-38
Scope and Contents
From the Accession:
This collection contains notebooks, memorandums, Marine Corps records, and a portion of the original outline that formed the basis for With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Sledge's memoir of his service in those campaigns during World War II. Many letters to Sledge commenting on With the Old Breed contain wartime remininscences of soldiers who also served in the Pacific in World War II. The collection includes photographs including...
Dates:
Publication: September 4, 1989
Leatherneck reviews, correspondence, etc., 1982
File — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Identifier: 96-38
Scope and Contents
From the Accession:
This collection contains notebooks, memorandums, Marine Corps records, and a portion of the original outline that formed the basis for With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Sledge's memoir of his service in those campaigns during World War II. Many letters to Sledge commenting on With the Old Breed contain wartime remininscences of soldiers who also served in the Pacific in World War II. The collection includes photographs including...
Dates:
1982
Reviews of With the Old Breed, correspondence, etc., 1981 - 1991
File — Box: 3, Folder: 17
Identifier: 96-38
Scope and Contents
From the Accession:
This collection contains notebooks, memorandums, Marine Corps records, and a portion of the original outline that formed the basis for With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Sledge's memoir of his service in those campaigns during World War II. Many letters to Sledge commenting on With the Old Breed contain wartime remininscences of soldiers who also served in the Pacific in World War II. The collection includes photographs including...
Dates:
1981 - 1991
3-5 Muster Roll, 1945
File — Box: 3, Folder: 18
Identifier: 96-38
Scope and Contents
From the Accession:
This collection contains notebooks, memorandums, Marine Corps records, and a portion of the original outline that formed the basis for With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Sledge's memoir of his service in those campaigns during World War II. Many letters to Sledge commenting on With the Old Breed contain wartime remininscences of soldiers who also served in the Pacific in World War II. The collection includes photographs including...
Dates:
1945
