Peleliu, an island of Micronesia that belongs ... where another airfield was heavily used during WWII. In April of this year, it was announced that an airfield construction project would be ...

Peleliu: WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

The Marines recently landed their first fixed wing aircraft on a recertified airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, which jarheads captured after brutal combat in 1944. The KC-130J Super ...

Initially, U.S. Marine Corps major general William Rupertus predicted that it would take less than a week to capture the South Pacific island of Peleliu, but in the end it took 74 days to achieve ...

Among American works I have recently been impressed by Joseph Wheelan’s Bitter Peleliu. Wheelan, to a degree, is reprising his 2020 Okinawa study, while what he says about Peleliu will not surprise ...

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa He was assigned to the 1st Marine Division as a replacement, and trained as a mortarman. He fought on Peleliu in September of 1944, and on Okinawa in ...

Haldane was only 27 when a Japanese sniper's bullet ended his life Oct. 12, 1944, on Peleliu Island in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Few people who knew him back then are alive today.

By late September 1944, the men of U.S. Marine fighter squadron VMF-122 were stuck on Peleliu and bored. Their F4U Corsairs were only 10 minutes’ flight time from Japanese-held islands ...