The "Sledge" title is in honor of its namesake, Pfc. Eugene Sledge, who fought in the Battle of Peleliu with the 1st Marine Division and later authored one of the key Marine memoirs of the war ...

“Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II,” is No. 8 on James Hallas’ well-regarded list of titles covering ...

Haldane was only 27 when a Japanese sniper's bullet ended his life Oct. 12, 1944, on Peleliu Island in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Few people who knew him back then are alive today.

He later turned those notes into a memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. After the war he returned to Alabama, married Jeanne Arcenaux, had two sons, and became a biologist and ...

The Marines, including the newly christened “Sledgehammer,” continue the battle of Peleliu against an enemy determined ... The mutual brutality and devastation of the Pacific theater of World War II ...