Nagai, a former Imperial Japanese Army sergeant known as the last survivor of the 34 stragglers who returned from the Battle of Peleliu, died of bowel cancer on Nov. 4 in his hometown in Ibaraki ...
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In September 1944, the Americans landed on Peleliu to take control of the airfield. The battle lasted two and a half months ...
The 2000 Yard Stare, painted for LIFE magazine by Thomas Lea, hauntingly portrays the characteristic vacant stare of a ...
The Marines named the rebuilt landing strip the “Sledge” runway in honor of a veteran of the Peleliu battle, Pfc. Eugene ...
Today, 80 years after the Battle of Peleliu, the Pacific Islands ... Republicans do not have the luxury of wasting all their political capital on a damaging internal family feud that would drag on ...
The Peleliu airstrip, also known as the Sledge runway, was the scene of the 1944 Battle of Peleliu, in which 8,000 Marines and soldiers were wounded, and about 1,800 service members were killed ...