Biography:

U.S.Marine; biologist; university professor. Born– Nov. 4, 1923, Mobile, Ala. Education– attended Marion Military Institute and Georgia Institute of Technology; Auburn University, B.S., 1949, M.S., 1955; University of Florida, Ph.D., 1960.  Volunteered for the U.S. Marine Corps, 1942; served in the Pacific with the 1st Marine Division.  Discharged with the rank of Corporal, 1946.  Research assistant at Auburn University, 1953-1955 and at University of Florida 1956-1959; with Division of Plant Industries for Florida State Department of Agriculture, 1959-62; professor of biology at the University of Montevallo, 1962-1990. His book With the Old Breed was used for the Ken Burns series on World War II and for the HBO series The Pacific. Died March 3, 2001.

Source:

With the Old Breed.

Publication(s):

China Marine: An Infantryman’s Life after World War II.  University of Alabama Press, 2002; rept. Oxford University Press, 2003.

With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa. Novato, Calif.; Presidio Press, 1981.