Mobile native and college professor Eugene Sledge (1923-2001) is best known for his books chronicling

Courtesy of Auburn University Libraries and the Sledge Family

Eugene B. Sledge in 1982

Mobile native and college professor Eugene Sledge (1923-2001) is best known for his books chronicling his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa and China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II.