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The author shares such unimaginable horror that it’s incredible anyone survived. The rain is endless, he is besieged by nightmares the few times he can sleep in his foxhole, and “of all the hardships and hazards the troops had to suffer, prolonged shell fire was more apt to break a man psychologically than anything else.”
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Chilling in many ways. On Peleliu in the Pacific, Sledge writes, “To my left, lay a couple of bloated Japanese corpses teaming with maggots … it was like no other battlefield described on earth. It was an alien, unearthly, surrealistic nightmare, like the surface of another planet.”
— Dec 30, 2025 09:31AM
