Re: Book recommendation for WWII nerds like me

tmitchell27® · 2023-12-06T13:57:27.271Z

I started reading a new book last night called "With the Old Breed". It's a first-hand account of boot camp and of the battles of Peleliu and Oki Nawa. Written by a Marine who fought in both. Great read so far. Hard to put it down. If you like WWII reading I recommend it.

Book recommendation for WWII nerds like me

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Dec 6, 2023, 1:08 PM

That is an excellent book. I read it years ago after it was suggested to me by a gentleman named Billy Smith from Pickens County.

At some urging, his wife encouraged Mr Smith to tell me his story. Mr Smith lied about his age as he was only 15 when he joined the Marine Corps. He laughed and said he was big for his age.

The fighting on Peleliu was so fierce that he realized he had made a critical error in judgment and went to his CO and told him he was only 15 years old. The CO instead of doing the correct thing and arranging to send him home told him to shut up and get back to his unit.

Mr Smith then slogged through the Okinawa campaign and said it was unbelievably horrible.

He told me Eugene Sledge's book With The Old Breed was as close to telling it how things were for Marines at Peleliu and Okinawa than any thing he had read.

Sledge went on to become a Biology professor at the University of Montevallo in Alabama and actually taught a friend of mine.

I concur 100% that this is a book well worth reading.

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