As HBO viewers begin drinking in the second half of The Pacific this weekend, they'll see the story line of Marine Eugene B. Sledge really kick in — which means they'll be seeing a lot more of ...

Mobilian Eugene Sledge to be inducted into Alabama Men's Hall of Fame (photos) Photo gallery: HBO's 'The Pacific' a sprawling World War II epic ...

Joe Mazzello's emotionally haunting performance as Marine Eugene Sledge on "The Pacific" clearly had an impact on Sledge's real-life family. Sledge's wife Jeanne was so touched by Mazzello's ...

If the premiere of "The Pacific" is any indication of how the rest of HBO's 10-part war epic will play out, we're in for a brutal, fascinating and touching piece of storytelling over the next few ...

Late in HBO’s World War II miniseries “The Pacific,” there’s a scene in a muddy, devastated Okinawa village in which Pvt. Eugene B. Sledge ( Joseph Mazzello) enters a hut to find a mortally wounded ...

HOOVER, Ala. (WTVM) - A piece of American war history is now rebuilt decades later. The World War II-era Japanese airfield on a Pacific Island is now named after a Marine hero from Alabama. Henry ...

Historian David (Crucible of Hell) recounts in this stirring saga the WWII campaigns of Company K, the 1st Marine Division unit whose exploits at Peleliu and Okinawa were documented by Eugene B.

The terse obituary of "Eugene B. Sledge, Marine Memoirist" [Metro, March 6], author of "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa," triggered memories of my late brother, Douglas, who, as a ...