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For those following the HBO series the Pacific, I thought you might find this collection in the library at Auburn interesting. It is about Eugene Sledge, who after the war became a professor at Auburn
http://diglib.auburn.edu/collections/ebsledge/
Also the character that is with Eugene as a sort of dark character, who has drifted into the apathy and sometime mentor of Sledge, Merriel 'SNAFU' Shelton, is a real person. There is not much written about him after Sledge's book. But I did find this article about him.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/roddreher/2010/03/the-real-snafu-from-the-pacific.html
and a picture of him and Sledge from 1983
http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ebsledge&CISOPTR=43&CISOBOX=1&REC=18
http://diglib.auburn.edu/collections/ebsledge/
Also the character that is with Eugene as a sort of dark character, who has drifted into the apathy and sometime mentor of Sledge, Merriel 'SNAFU' Shelton, is a real person. There is not much written about him after Sledge's book. But I did find this article about him.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/roddreher/2010/03/the-real-snafu-from-the-pacific.html
and a picture of him and Sledge from 1983
http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ebsledge&CISOPTR=43&CISOBOX=1&REC=18