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 ...

A recently refurbished, World War II-era airfield is the second such site ... recertification of an airfield on the Pacific ...

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 ...

“Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II,” is No. 8 on Hallas’ well-regarded list of titles covering the battles of Peleliu, Okinawa and Saipan, along with two books on ...

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.