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 ...

Thus, we have more for the Pacific War of 1941-5 than the Sino-Japanese War of ... Among American works I have recently been impressed by Joseph Wheelan’s Bitter Peleliu. Wheelan, to a degree, is ...

The three narrative threads occasionally intersect, and cover events such as the Guadalcanal campaign and the Battles of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa ... The three principal roles in The ...

The Marines, including the newly christened “Sledgehammer,” continue the battle of Peleliu against an enemy determined to ... prepares to ship out and confront the enemy somewhere in the Pacific, ...

The Battle of Peleliu was fought on the lovely Pacific island of that name by Japanese and American forces toward the end of the Pacific War. A work of fiction based on historical fact ...

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 ...