It remains blurred and vague, but occasionally still comes, even after the nightmares about the shock and violence of Peleliu have faded and been lifted from me like a curse.” The dream is always the same, going back up to the lines during the bloody, muddy month of May on Okinawa. “It became the subject of the most tortuous and persistent of all the ghastly war nightmares that have haunted me for many, many years. “The increasing dread of going back into action obsessed me,” he wrote. Years later, Sledge described the fighting on Okinawa in mid-May 1945 and the recurring nightmares that it inspired. Sledge was already a combat veteran by this time, having received his baptism of fire on Peleliu in September and October 1944. Marine Corps PFC Eugene Bondurant Sledge was fighting on Okinawa as a mortarman with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment of the 1st Marine Division. Photos courtesy Auburn University LibrariesĮxactly 75 years ago this spring, in May and June 1945, Mobile native and U.S. Eugene Sledge in his laboratory at the University of Montevallo, 1963.
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