"Courage meant overcoming fear and doing one’s duty in the presence of danger, not being unafraid.”― Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa Sledge fought in the Pacific, came home, and nightmares haunted him for decades after the war. That's why he wrote the World War II memoir “With the Old Breed”.. PFC Eugene Sledge is recognized as a USMC combat veteran of World War II. His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during Wo