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After the costly landings, U.S. Marines advanced into Peleliu’s rugged interior, a landscape of jagged coral ridges, hidden bunkers, and fortified caves. The terrain gave Japanese defenders every ...
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Marine Combat in the the Pacific’s Battle of Peleliu!
Go inside one of the toughest battles of WWII. This video documents the unflinching courage and the sheer intensity of combat ...
In 1944, the tiny island of Peleliu was the site of the some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, as Marines and Army soldiers fought to seize an airfield carved into its coral rocks. Saturday, ...
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 ...
USS PELELIU (LHA-5), At sea -- It was the first day of liberty in Darwin, Australia. Staff Sgt. James Roberts was enjoying a cold beverage at a local pub with his buddies. Suddenly, several ...
The last Tarawa-class big deck amphibious warship will decommission in a ceremony at Naval Station San Diego on Tuesday ahead of joining the Navy’s inactive reserve fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the ...
The man in the red T-shirt spoke for the third time. The congregation murmurs in displeasure, for the man is obviously drunk. "My third question is actually the same as the first," he says: "Are you ...
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 ...
The USS Peleliu begins its participation in RIMPAC later this week. But before the ship arrives in Hawaii for the multinational naval exercises, the Peleliu crew conducted burials at sea to honor 22 ...
The Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group - homeport San Diego - and the Camp Pendleton-based 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived in Hong Kong on Monday for a port visit. 15th MEU commanding officer Col.
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