Marine Corporal Eugene “Sledgehammer” Sledge rests on Okinawa after surviving the brutal battles of Peleliu and Okinawa with K Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division.
Sledge later documented his experiences in the acclaimed memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, providing one of the most powerful firsthand accounts of Marine combat in the Pacific.
Okinawa, Japan — September 1945