He was assigned to the 1st Marine Division as a replacement, and trained as a mortarman. He fought on Peleliu in September of , and on Okinawa in the spring of Throughout the many brutal months he spent overseas, Sledge kept an unauthorized journal, jotting down his impressions of the fighting and slipping his notes between the pages of his bible. Sledge could have found shelter from the carnage of World War II, at least as an officer if not a civilian.
Instead, he chose to serve in the U. Marine Corps as an infantryman. The baby is taken by one of the officers while Sledge finds the woman alone and comforts her until she dies of her wounds. Afterwards, Sledge then has a chance to kill a young Okinawan teenager, but denies it, and the teenager is instead killed by one of the other marines.
Eventually, the marines leave yet again, with Sledge having gained back some of his humanity. Leyden was confirmed to have survived again and headed back to the states. The destruction of the city of Hiroshima by the atomic bomb was also revealed here as Sledge, Snafu, and Burgin leave via truck. Later, Sledge is seen celebrating Victory in Japan Day with his friends. Sledge, Snafu and Burgin go back to their respective homes after they were discharged after some time stationed in China, with Sledge being the last to get home.
At the station, he reuinites once again with Sid, who welcomes him home and drives him back to his house, asking about a pipe that Sledge had been smoking since Peleliu. Sledge merely replies that it calms him down, and he is then told that Sid was going to marry, with Sledge accepting the position as best man.
Sledge reunites with his brother who got back from the ETO, as well as with his mother and father, who consistantly worry about his nightmares that he keeps having, undoubtably about his experiences in the Pacific. The next day, Sledge joins in the Auburn University then known as the Alabama Polytechnic Institute , and Sledge continues to experience trauma even into a grand party and halfway into hunting with his father.
Sledge is last seen in the series with a flower in his hand a the woods outside of his house then walking back before his final fate is revealed along with the other characters in the series.
Sledge attended the university and recieved a Bachelor of Science degree in Sledge gave up his hunting hobby, and a key turning point in his life and career followed when his father advised him that he could substitute bird watching as a hobby. Sledge started to assist the conservation department in its banding study efforts, the origin of his well known passion for the science of ornithology. He found his salvation in science, it kept the flashbacks of Peleliu and Okinawa at bay.
Close, constant study of nature prevented him from going mad. However, the war stayed with him, and finally at the urging of his wife, he began to write his memiors, "With the Old Breed At Peleliu and Okinawa" , at last allowing him to put his horrors behind him. He returned to Auburn in where he worked as a research assistant until From to Sledge attended the University of Florida and worked as a research assistant. He published numerous papers on helminthology and in joined the Helminthological Society of Washington.
He received his doctorate in biology from the University of Florida in In he became a professor, a position he held until his retirement in He taught zoology, ornithology, comparative vertebrate anatomy and other courses during his long tenure there. Sledge was popular with his students, organizing field trips and collections around town.
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