In September 1944, US Marines stormed Peleliu expecting an easy victory, but Colonel Kunio Nakagawa had transformed the island into a deadly fortress. Hidden gun emplacements and fortified coral ...
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 ...
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 ...