{"id":2161,"date":"2016-06-03T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2016-06-03T14:03:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T21:03:55","slug":"sledge-eugene-bondurant-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2161","title":{"rendered":"SLEDGE, EUGENE BONDURANT, 1923-2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S.Marine; biologist; university professor. Born&#8211; Nov. 4, 1923, Mobile, Ala. Education&#8211; attended Marion Military Institute and Georgia Institute of Technology; Auburn University, B.S., 1949, M.S., 1955; University of Florida, Ph.D., 1960. \u00a0Volunteered for the U.S. Marine Corps, 1942; served in the Pacific with the 1st Marine Division.\u00a0 Discharged with the rank of Corporal, 1946.\u00a0\u00a0Research assistant at Auburn University, 1953-1955 and at University of Florida 1956-1959; with Division of Plant Industries for Florida State Department of Agriculture, 1959-62; professor of biology at the University of Montevallo, 1962-1990. His book <em>With the Old Breed<\/em> was used for the Ken Burns series on World War II and for the HBO series <em>The Pacific. <\/em>Died March 3, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the Old Breed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China Marine: An Infantryman&#8217;s Life after World War II.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2002; rept. Oxford University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa. Novato, Calif.; Presidio Press, 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: U.S.Marine; biologist; university professor. Born&#8211; Nov. 4, 1923, Mobile, Ala. Education&#8211; attended Marion Military Institute and Georgia Institute of Technology; Auburn University, B.S., 1949, M.S., 1955; University of Florida, Ph.D., 1960. \u00a0Volunteered for the U.S. Marine Corps, 1942; served in the Pacific with the 1st Marine Division.\u00a0 Discharged with the rank of Corporal, 1946.\u00a0\u00a0Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}