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

A historian will lecture on the Battle of Peleliu, where US Marines suffered their largest number of casualties in WWII.

Courage is never a guarantee of success; it is an act of vulnerability in the face of uncertainty," Michael Chancellor says.

The remote island of Peleliu is the most well-preserved WWII battlefield anywhere. The remote island of Peleliu is considered the most well-preserved battlefield in the world. It is illegal to remove ...

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.

When U.S. Marines landed on Peleliu in 1944, they expected the battle to last only a few days. Instead, they faced deeply entrenched Japanese defenders using new defensive tactics and fortified cave ...

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 ...

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 ...

The soldiers and Marines who landed on the island of Peleliu during World War II were about to take on an entirely new doctrine of island defenses implemented by the Japanese. It would force the ...

Reporting from Peleliu, Palau — Opening her laptop, Tomomi Takemoto studies a 70-year-old map of this claw-shaped island, searching for the burial site of her great-uncle, a Japanese infantryman who ...