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🗓️ 21 May 2025
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The Old Breed… The Complete Story Revealed brings to life an abundance of new material from the original manuscript of Eugene Sledge’s classic memoir With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. By interspersing his own personal anecdotes throughout, Henry Sledge takes his father’s work and gives it newfound context, sharing memories of conversations between father and son. The result is a flowing narrative that portrays an intimate look at a WWII veteran and his struggles to adapt to civilian life following the war.
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0:00.0 | This is Jocko podcast number 491 with Dave Burke and me Jocker Willink. Good evening, Dave. Good evening. |
0:06.9 | In the early morning light, word was passed that they had to move out and attack across the airfield. |
0:15.0 | Quote, many of us had no water and ammunition supplies were low. We hoped supplies would come up before the attack. |
0:22.6 | We were thirsty and we could not go much longer without water. |
0:28.3 | A concentration of heavy machine gun fire swept over their gun pit. |
0:32.7 | First, I distinctly heard three separate shots. |
0:35.3 | Crack, crack, crack as the bullets passed over quickly |
0:38.1 | followed by the report of the gun that's a hotchkiss said snafu as we ducked our heads no |
0:45.3 | sooner had he uttered the remark than the gun fired a long burst and tracers streaked over us and |
0:50.6 | the slugs cracked as they went over not more than a foot above ground level |
0:55.7 | whether those Japanese heavy machine gunners were laying down harassing fire supporting another |
1:00.2 | counter attack or whether they actually observed our position by the muzzle flashes from our mortar |
1:07.0 | or sauced by the light of the star shells, we couldn't know. |
1:12.6 | End quote. |
1:14.6 | My father knew that as soon as this machine gun fire ended, |
1:19.1 | they were going to have to prepare to attack across the airfield. |
1:23.7 | The thought of this filled him and all the Marines who would have to do it with dread. |
1:35.3 | And that right there is an excerpt from a new book. |
1:40.6 | The new book is called The Old Breed, The Complete Story Revealed, |
1:45.9 | and is written by a man named W. Henry Sledge. |
1:51.6 | And if the name Sledge rings a bell, it should. |
1:54.9 | Henry Sledge is the son of the legendary Marine Eugene Sledge. |
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