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On September 15th, 1944, the U.S. 1st Marine Division landed on the island of Peleliu, expecting a short, brutal assault to ...

On September 15, 1944, some 6,000 men of the First Marine Division landed on a hot chunk of coral in the South Pacific called Peleliu. The tiny island, a mere six miles long and two miles wide, held ...

Just days after the 70th anniversary of U.S. forces landing on the Pacific Ocean island of Peleliu, two local residents marked the occasion by visiting the island. The U.S. Marines, including Pfc.

Join us as we delve into the intense and lesser-known battle of Peleliu, where Japanese tanks played a pivotal role in the ...

On Sept. 15, 1944, the Navy had just completed a 10-day aerial bombing of the island of Peleliu in the Central Pacific. The island was inhabited by 11,000 Japanese soldiers ready for battle. Gen.

Peleliu, a small island in the Republic of Palau, sits some 3,000 kilometers south of Japan, in the middle of the Pacific. More than seven decades ago, some 10,000 Japanese soldiers were almost ...

On the beaches and in the caves of a small Micronesian island, archaeologists have identified evocative evidence of one of WWII’s most brutal battles U.S. marines (top) advance on Orange Beach during ...

Think of the iconic World War II battles in the Pacific. Iwo Jima comes to mind, certainly. So might Guadalcanal and its jungle hell, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines and the ...

The remote island of Peleliu is the most well-preserved WWII battlefield anywhere. The remote island of Peleliu is considered the most well-preserved battlefield in the world. It is illegal to remove ...