In the book With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, an acclaimed World War II battle narrative, the author Sledge describes a nighttime chat with an up from the ranks officer, 1st Lt. Edward A. (“Hillbilly”) Jones, w extensive combat experience who was verifying the horrendous nature of the previous days battle and validating the intense fear that Sledge had shamefacedly admitted experiencing throughout and before the 1944 Peleliu campaign. Since the officer was an...
