But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. The remote island of Peleliu is considered the most well-preserved battlefield in the world. It is illegal to remove any ...

Palau, a nation of about 18,000 people, has drawn China's anger by refusing to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of ...

The location was a “heavily sedimented” extinct volcano in the Palau National Marine Sanctuary, about 4,700 miles southwest ...

Initially, U.S. Marine Corps major general William Rupertus predicted that it would take less than a week to capture the South Pacific Island of Peleliu, but in the end it took 74 days to achieve ...

After fighting in Manchuria for about four years, Nagai and his fellow soldiers were sent to the island of Peleliu in Palau. After losing a series of battles on islands in the Pacific Theater ...

(Top: NARA; RG 127; Above: Courtesy Rick Knecht) On the morning of September 15, 1944, some 18,000 U.S. marines from the First Division invaded the tiny Western Pacific island of Peleliu ...

World War II veteran Matt Gutman, 99, died Thursday of natural causes at Phoebe Terrace in Allentown, where he had lived since 2017.

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