Just days after the 70th anniversary of U.S. forces landing on the Pacific Ocean island of Peleliu, two local residents marked the occasion by visiting the island. The U.S. Marines, including Pfc.

A Marine reflects on survival during the Battle of Peleliu in the Pacific, sharing a firsthand wartime experience from a ...

On September 15th, 1944, the U.S. 1st Marine Division landed on the island of Peleliu, expecting a short, brutal assault to ...

The Pentagon is proposing a new U.S. military site on a Micronesian island where a bloody battle raged during World War II. Department of Defense representatives met Republic of Palau leaders and ...

Peleliu, a small island in the Republic of Palau, sits some 3,000 kilometers south of Japan, in the middle of the Pacific. More than seven decades ago, some 10,000 Japanese soldiers were almost ...

On Sept. 15, 1944, the Navy had just completed a 10-day aerial bombing of the island of Peleliu in the Central Pacific. The island was inhabited by 11,000 Japanese soldiers ready for battle. Gen.

Japanese films about the war, both fiction and nonfiction, rarely focus on the fighting between Japanese and American forces in the Pacific, though Clint Eastwood’s 2006 hit “Letters from Iwo Jima” ...