#4509172 - 03/02/20 02:17 PM
"With the Old Breed" by EB Sledge
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Recently finished this book in a matter of days. Great read, hard to put down. Sledge was one of the very few in his company who was never wounded during their time in WWII. He was a mortar man and often could not directly see his target. He describes firing a rifle at the enemy only a couple of times, inconclusively. Yet this book is the most gritty, moving description of Pacific Theater infantry warfare I've read. The suffocating heat, rocky hard terrain and smell of decaying flesh at Peleliu to the rain, mud and smell of decaying flesh at Okinawa, the environment was almost as much the enemy as the Japanese. Highly recommend.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
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#4510232 - 03/09/20 11:50 PM
Re: "With the Old Breed" by EB Sledge
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you should also read China Marine . On my list!
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#4527935 - 06/29/20 07:37 PM
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Received "China Marine" for father's day. Wow. Great book, very moving account of post war duty in China and finally getting home and dealing with his life changing experience. I just finished 5 minutes ago, still feeling the lump in my throat. God bless all the men like Eugene Sledge.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
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#4535400 - 08/31/20 08:05 PM
Re: "With the Old Breed" by EB Sledge
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Yep, great book. I read it and Helmet For My Pillow after my first time watching The Pacific. That was truly a hellish war. Not that the other theatres of war were holidays in comparison, but the heat, humidity, disease and just the general sense of decay, with leather rotting away and wounds not healing, that must have been horrible.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
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#4535404 - 08/31/20 09:04 PM
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Not that the other theatres of war were holidays in comparison, but the heat, humidity, disease and just the general sense of decay, with leather rotting away and wounds not healing, that must have been horrible. True, PTO veterans fought two enemies: the Japanese and the elements.
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
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