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	Peleliu
		The Japanese were using Koreans to do their farming so that they would not have to be exposed in the open and subject to strafing by aircraft.
		No Japanese aircraft had survived the battle of Peleliu to intercept the Photographic Reconnaissance aircraft operating over the Japanese held territories, however, they did encounter light to heavy AA fire routinely.
		The VMD Photo Aircraft had already been shipped to Peleliu and the personnel detachment were transported from Guam to Peleliu via NATS.
	www.usmarinecorpsvmd-354.com /peleliu.html (521 words)

	Peleliu, battle for (Operation Stalemate II) - The Pacific War's Forgotten Battle, September-November 1944
		The planning for the Peleliu assault was carried out by the 1st Marine Division's second-in-command, Brigadier General Oliver P Smith, as its commander, Major General William H Rupertus, was away in the United States for a considerable length of time.
		It is doubtful he was on Peleliu at the time of the battle as he survived to surrender Imperial Japanese Navy forces in the Palau Islands to the Americans in April 1945.
		With the north of Peleliu secure, the only part still in Japanese hands was the pocket of resistance centred on the Umurbrogol Mountains in an area of about 1,000 yards by 500 yards, running from Baldy Hill in the north to Five Sisters in the south.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/battles_peleliu.html (10304 words)

	Peleliu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peleliu (or Beliliou) is an island in the island nation of Palau.
		Peleliu was viewed as a potential threat to General Douglas MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines; its airfield would enable Japanese planes to strike at American landing and support ships and menace troops once on the ground in the Philippines.
		Peleliu, however, proved to be quite different from the many previous battles in several fundamental ways, and would end with a high death toll, questionable strategic gain, and yet valuable insights for future operations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peleliu (5126 words)

	Battle of Peleliu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Like the bloody World War II island campaigns before it, the battle of Peleliu was a fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific.
		And, as with previous island battles, the Americans would prevail, but at a higher cost than anticipated, against the determined resistance of the Japanese forces.
		As for Peleliu, both commanders' strategies included the invasion of this island, but for different reasons, and the 1st Marine Division had already been chosen to make the assault.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Peleliu (370 words)

	USS Peleliu LHA-5
		Peleliu is named in honor of the 3rd Amphibious Force’s assault and capture of Peleliu Island in the fall of 1944.
		The Peleliu ARG was deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1997 (actually being present in the Gulf in November) and participated in Exercise Eager Mace 98.
		Peleliu was the first ship in the war on terrorism to deploy Marines to the beach, and then fly over 200 miles to the desert country of Afghanistan.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/lha-5.htm (2317 words)

	Peleliu Appendis
		The battle for Peleliu Island, the Gateway to the Philippines, was the longest and one of the most hard-fought battles in the entire Central Pacific amphibious operations of World War II.
		While some strategists have argued that the capture of Peleliu was not a necessary preliminary for the coming struggle in the Philippines, brave men bled and died in the Palaus for their beliefs and their loyalties.
		Peleliu's garrison amounted to approximately 10,500 men of whom 6,500 were combat troops and some 4,000 were naval personnel.
	www.nps.gov /pwro/piso/peleliu/appa.htm (2797 words)

	Brotherhood of Heroes : The Marines at Peleliu, 1944 -- The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War: Current Amazon U.S.A. ...
		The battle of Peleliu, though certainly not the bloodiest of the Pacific war, was a ghastly ordeal.
		Peleliu is one of the Palau Islands, southeast of the Philippines.
		Peleliu was the scene of one of the most savage no-quarter struggles of modern times, one that has been all but forgotten -- until now.
	www.floridakeysdiving.net /stuff-0743260090.html (5562 words)

	Stories - The Battle of Peleliu - USMC, 1st Radio Battalion, Vietnam Veterans
		Peleliu Island was somewhat the shape of a lobster claw, with one small airfield to take.
		According to reports after the final battles had been won on Peleliu it was determined that the five-day naval bombardment that proceeded their landing had hardly touched the Japanese troops.
		The Battle of Peleliu was one of the hardest-fought campaigns of the Pacific warand we lost three of our own during that battle, with several others being wounded.
	www.swanassoc.com /1stradiobn/stories_peleliu.htm (1145 words)

	Previous Articles
		Peleliu is located southernmost of the Palau group, halfway between the Marianas and the Philippines.
		It is my understanding that this little island of Peleliu is now referred to as the "paradise island of the Pacific." Hundreds of thousands of vacationers (many Japanese) go there annually to enjoy the plush 5-star hotels, golf courses, etc. To me, I will always see it painted in the color of "red," American blood.
		During the Battle of Peleliu, the U.S. suffered nearly 9,000 casualties from members of American armed forces who were killed, wounded, or missing - not considering the 12,000 Japanese soldiers that we were forced to kill.
	www.semperfidelisnoah.com /NoahsARKivesTheBattleOfPeleliu.htm (1057 words)

	Wholewheatbagel.com - Wholewheatbagel in the Marines
		I wasn't on the USS Peleliu for this operation, but I was aboard her for the WestPac.
		Aboard the Peleliu there is a painting of the island she's named after as well as a brief description of the battle that took place there.
		The battle for Peleliu is often called the forgotten battle of the Pacific war.
	www.wholewheatbagel.com /index.cfm?fa=marines.peleliu (138 words)

	Directory - Society: History: By Time Period: Twentieth Century: Wars and Conflicts: World War II: Theaters of ...
		The Battle of Truk Lagoon · An account of Operation HAILSTONE, the February 1944 attack on the Japanese Navy at Truk (Chuuk).
		Battle of Peleliu · About the Battle of Peleliu, covering the battle, the American and Japanese forces, weapons, maps, and a look at the Peleliu battlefield today.
		Carrier Battles in the Pacific · cached · Profiles the many naval engagements between US and Japanese forces in the Pacific between 1942-1944, including the battles of Midway, the Coral Sea, the Solomons, the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=790479 (506 words)

	Peleliu
		necessary to protect MacArthur's flank, the battle of Peleliu was one of the toughest to be fought during the entire Pacific war.
		Temperatures on Peleliu rose as high as 115 degrees, and drinking water was scarce during the initial combat.
		The battle for Peleliu provided an opportunity for Marines to practice and perfect their skills in close air support.
	www.militaryunits.com /pelelieu.htm (1201 words)

	Rifleman Sledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The "assault into hell," as the Battle of Peleliu was termed by Eugene Sledge, forever changed his life.
		Peleliu and Okinawa were two of the bloodiest battles in this nation's history.
		On the 14th day of the battle for Peleliu, Sledge participated in the 3d Bn, 5th Marines' shore-to-shore amphibious assault on the adjoining island of Ngesebus.
	www.mca-marines.org /Leatherneck/july01sledge.htm (3332 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		The battle for Peleliu is so widely forgotten that the gap in our memory may be the most moving aspect of it.
		Peleliu, historians say, was the single most savage battle of the entire Pacific War.
		And Peleliu, I think to answer the question was Peleliu necessary, that was a large bomber strip, and we were able to use that to protect the Marines as they went to Okinawa and Iwo Jima on the way towards Japan, which was made unnecessary when the bomb was dropped.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0411/30/i_ins.01.html (3255 words)

	USS Peleliu (LHA 5)
		The battle was one of the most vicious and stubbornly contested of the Pacific campaign and nowhere was the fighting efficiency of the U.S. Marines more convincingly demonstrated.
		General Roy S. Geiger, USMC declared repeatedly that the battle for Peleliu was the toughest of the entire Pacific war.
		From the initial wave of Marines hitting Peleliu's beaches on September 15th, until the fury of combat was finally still on October 26, 1944, the 1st Marine Division suffered 6,526 casualties, of which 1,252 were killed in action.
	navysite.de /ships/lha5.htm (766 words)

	Peleliu, battle for (Operation Stalemate II) - The Pacific War's Forgotten Battle, September-November 1944
		Peleliu is just over twenty square miles in size, and has a similar shape to that of a lobster claw.
		The planning for the Peleliu assault was carried out by the 1st Marine Division's second-in-command, Brigadier General Oliver P Smith, as its commander, Major General William H Rupertus, was away in the United States for a considerable length of time.
		With the north of Peleliu secure, the only part still in Japanese hands was the pocket of resistance centred on the Umurbrogol Mountains in an area of about 1,000 yards by 500 yards, running from Baldy Hill in the north to Five Sisters in the south.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/battles_peleliu.html (10264 words)

	Tracing Scars, Ghosts Of War: From The Tampa Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The battles of Truk, Peleliu and elsewhere in the southwest Pacific occurred 60 years ago, in the heat of World War II.
		Peleliu today is a lush tropical island known for its diving and fishing.
		Temperatures on Peleliu rose as high as 115 degrees, soldiers reported, and drinking water was scarce.
	www.tampatrib.com /FloridaMetro/MGBJ9PSKUUD.html (956 words)

	ez-online-shopping - Online Shopping,Best Buy Cheap Books Store : Brotherhood of Heroes : The Marines at Peleliu, 1944 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While definitely not the most bloodest battle in the Pacific (I think of Iwo Jima or Okinawa before Peleliu), this was a hard fought battle, won by the superb courage and skills of the US Marine Corps.
		Good Pacific War battle book should have chapters on the Japanese side as well as the Americans because only then, can there be justice done to the battle and blood spilled.
		The battle for Peleliu was supposed to last for only about 72 hours as the few hundred or maybe a couple of thousand Japanese were defeated.
	www.ez-online-shopping.com /Reviews/ItemId/0743260090/ReviewPage/2 (1138 words)

	Eric Mailander - Peleliu Explorations
		Peleliu is far the best place to see WWII artifacts and probably one of the few battlefields still intact.
		Although he survived the battle, the Marine passed away a few years ago but I was able to find the son.
		I was assigned by the Governor to assist them with their battle survey and lead them through the ridges and caves.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /people/visitors/mailander (1815 words)

	Peleliu Tribute
		The Peleliu War Historical Society is also proud to announce that their plan to preserve the Peleliu Battlefield, with help from the National Park Service, continues to move forward.
		We were extraordinarily fortunate to have a response of highly qualified proposals and much of the credit should be given to the often forgotten Peleliu, which along with its present challenges make it important that our work be done right and with respect for all involved.
		Explains why Peleliu was part of the Pacific offensive, and summarizes the battle.
	www.thomas5.com /tribute (438 words)

	Peleliu 1944 Home Page
		PFC South fought on Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and New Guinea.
		He was KIA during the battle of Peleliu. Included are pictures of the American Memorial Cemetery in Manila, Peleliu after-action reports and Peleliu Art by Tom Lea.
		Please feel free to write if I may be of any service.
	www.peleliu1944.com /home.html (218 words)

	PELELIU
		Davis was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart at Peleliu and awarded the Bronze Star with Valor, the Silver Star with Gold Star in lieu of second medal, the Legion of Merit with Valor and the Medal of Honor in Korea.
		Geiger passed Marine Corps command of Peleliu and the conquered islands of the Palaus to Army Gen.
		Peleliu Tribute (http://brothersinbattle.net/html/tribute.html) – Richard Bruce Watkins, Capt.
	home.sprynet.com /~kier/peleliu.htm (4549 words)

	Fort Collins classmates fought battle for Peleliu
		The scope was recovered following the battle for Peleliu by a pair of Fort Collins classmates who headed off to war after graduating from the CSU School of Forestry in 1943.
		Another 1,393 soldiers from the 81st Division were killed or wounded on Peleliu or the neighboring island of Anguar.
		But now, 20 years later with the survivors of that bloody battle fading away and taking their untold stories with them, one man decided it was time to tell the story and tell it straight so future generations don't forget their sacrifice.
	www.northfortynews.com /Archive/A200409Peleliu.htm (986 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Devil's Anvil: The Assault on Peleliu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Peleliu is a tiny coral island 500 miles from the Philippines on which over 1500 Americans lost their lives in World War II.
		The battle took over two months, and thousands of soldiers and marines were seriously wounded in pursuit of a dubious prize: 6400 acres of inverted coral.
		The island was, in the end, of "dubious value." The Allies were moving quickly in the South Pacific and by the time the island of Peleliu was seized, to "became a backwater almost before it was invaded." For those who survived the battle, Peleliu "remains a bitter, emotionally exhausting chapter of their lives.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0275946460 (1150 words)

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		Rupertus declares "organized resistance has ended on Ngesebus and all of northern Peleliu has been secured." This is more than surprising to the marines and to the Army's 321st RCT 2nd Battalion (who will be mopping up for three more days).
		They found that nearly a third of all the fortified caves on Peleliu were concentrated in The Pocket, a killing ground that was approximately six or seven city blocks long and three or four wide." Col. Hanneken's 7th Regiment is tapped to spearhead the assault on The Pocket.
		During the battle and on Pavuvu, the 1st received 4,493 enlisted men and 57 officers, a few hundred were veterans recovered from wounds in the Guadalcanal or Cape Gloucester or other 1st Division campaigns, but most were teenage draftees.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/50.years.ago/jbd/peleliu.txt (3468 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Today, we recognize those special heroes from the battle of Peleliu, whose 60th anniversary we are commemorating.
		Therefore, at Peleliu, they shifted their strategy from a war for victory to a war of attrition.
		A one- week battle turned into a three months' long campaign, resulting in the heaviest losses and the bloodiest battle to that date in the Pacific.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/people/secnav/england/speeches/england040813.txt (1143 words)

	Peleliu Battle Visitor Comments
		Peleliu holds special meaning for you since your dad was in combat there, and you have an appreciation for what he and his brother Marines and Soldiers did there.
		Peleliu keeps drawing me back as it is a beautifully preserved WWII battlefield..a veritable time capsule.
		The battle went on for months, and they were still pulling enemy soldiers out of the caves in 1947, so the idea of a traditional "front" does not apply to the network of caves and tunnels on Peleliu.
	www.pfweb.com /plf-usmc/VisComm.htm (4303 words)

	Amazon.com: World War II: The War Chronicles (1998) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Battle of Peleliu was notably bloody: with a casualty rate of almost 50 percent, some 20,000 Marines died in a three-month ordeal that was supposed to be a quick, four-day operation on the way to liberate the Gilbert Islands.
		The Peleliu airfield was an essential and easy target to secure, but up in the rocky hills of the small island the Japanese had made a fortress of miles of interconnected caves--virtually impregnable.
		For example, the battle of Midway was a watershed in the struggle for power in the pacific arena, and was the result of a complex and dramatic combination and sequence of brilliant cryptanalysis, intrigue, wild luck, heroism etc..
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303422861?v=glance (1012 words)

	H (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Recognizing the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Peleliu and the end of Imperial Japanese control of Palau during World War II and urging the Secretary of the Interior to work to protect the historic sites of the Peleliu Battlefield National Historic Landmark and to establish commemorative programs honoring the Americans who fought there.
		Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz served as an officer in the Marine Corps detached to the 81st Infantry Division of the Army during the Battle of Peleliu and participated in the seizure, occupation, and defense of Angaur Island in the Palau islands chain.
		The Peleliu battlefield today has considerable physical evidence of the battle, including about 100 identified individual cave sites occupied by the defending Japanese troops, as well as pill boxes, casemates, and large military equipment, both American and Japanese, which played a direct role in the battle for Peleliu.
	www.gop.gov /Committeecentral/bills/hjres102.asp (554 words)

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