MOBILE, Ala. -- The story of the war America fought in the Pacific is coming to life through the eyes of the late Eugene Sledge, a native of Mobile and author of "With the Old Breed." The book is a ...

made the presentations to Phillips and Sledge's widow, Jeanne, in a House chamber packed with leaders of the Alabama House and Senate. "Those World War II vets, they never went to be a hero. They went ...

part five coming up just as soon as I spell my last name for you... "Sid, what's it like?" -Sledge "I slept with a woman in Melbourne. I'm not bragging. That's at one end, right? And then way down ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda and James Badge Dale carried most of the "The Pacific" campaign through four episodes, as Eugene Sledge, John Basilone and Robert Leckie, respectively. Enter Rami Malek as ...

A child actor couldn’t have a better mentor than Steven Spielberg. Joe Mazzello, one of the standouts in the HBO miniseries “The Pacific,” didn’t know how lucky he was when Steven Spielberg took him ...

This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands... Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new ...

Some books just stay with you. Perhaps it's a memorable storyline. Or the writing. Or a compelling narrative. Sometimes it's all of those and more. I first read With The Old Breed when I was in ...

Never afraid to show the brutality of war, The Pacific really went into overdrive this time, with an episode that was equally horrific, gripping and downright affecting. After last week’s classic ...