A US military cargo plane returned to a World War II airstrip on Saturday, a site in the Pacific region that Marines had to reclaim. "The landing of the C-130 on the resurfaced runway after many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...