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About 10 years ago, Gabriel Ineichen of Davenport put the word out that he was looking for area World War II veterans who were at the Battle of Peleliu. This month, he’s inviting all WWII ...
A Marine's Fight for Survival in the Pacific's Battle of Peleliu ...
Work has begun to recover the remains of Japanese soldiers at a mass burial site on Palau's Peleliu Island, a fierce ...
The connections to America are particularly resonant on Palau’s southern islands of Peleliu and Angaur. The two isles were sites of bloody World War Two battles in which more than 12,000 U.S ...
PALAU, Western Pacific >> The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays in a titanic ...
Once the site of ferocious World War Two battles, Palau is again at the epicenter of a geostrategic tussle. America is building radar stations here, while individuals and groups tied to China wage an ...
Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise is set in 1944, a year before the Second World War would come to an end. The heartbreaking manga depicts a fierce battle between thousands of American and Japanese ...
Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise anime movie serves ... As such, the anime movie will depict Tamaru's daily life during the months-long battle between Japan's 10,000 troops (approx) and the USA's ...
The Marines, including the newly christened “Sledgehammer,” continue the battle of Peleliu against an enemy determined to fight to the last man. Devastated by the loss of a revered leader ...
Eighty years after the bloody Battle of Peleliu, the Japanese government plans to exhume over 1,000 war dead from the Pacific island. The country’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has announced ...