A friend of mine had Eugene Sledge as a professor of biology at Montevallo State University (now the University of Montevallo) during the mid-1970s. He said that Dr. Sledge would occasionally lapse into stories about his war experiences.
When I was growing up and even when I was in college a lot of the men I knew were WWII veterans. But I don’t remember them talking about their experiences, except for my father who told us many stories about the war.