On the island of Peleliu, US Marines faced one of the most vicious and costly battles of the Pacific War. Expecting a short ...

Explore the harrowing battle of Peleliu in 1944, where U.S. Marines faced unimaginable conditions in their fight for survival ...

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.

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.

Retired Marine Brig. Gen. Gordon Gayle, who received the Navy Cross for leadership and bravery during the assault on Peleliu, one of the bloodiest and most complex and controversial battles fought by ...

SAN DIEGO — Bill Geary, 88, a cattle rancher from Montana, paused Saturday to look at pictures and maps detailing the carnage of the World War II battle on the island of Peleliu. Geary, who fought ...

TOKYO — Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two this year, offered flowers and prayers on Thursday at a memorial to those who died in a ...

There is pride of place in his shared nursing home room for the Honor Flight New England Certificate. It documents his June 17 chartered trip with other veterans to the war memorials in the nation's ...

Think of the iconic World War II battles in the Pacific. Iwo Jima comes to mind, certainly. So might Guadalcanal and its jungle hell, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines and the ...

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 ...

Japan will release two anime projects in 2025 for the 80th anniversary of World War II's end. 'Cocoon: From the Girls of One Summer' depicts young nurses in Okinawa. 'Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise' ...