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Peleliu: The Japanese trap that turned a quick victory into hell
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 ...
The USS Peleliu is returning Wednesday to Naval Base San Diego from its final deployment before decommissioning, the Navy announced Monday. The 820-foot-long, 25-ton-plus amphibious assault ship will ...
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Peleliu’s devastation: Nearly 10,000 Americans lost for a futile objective
After weeks of horrific fighting, the island of Peleliu was secured at a staggering cost. Over 6,500 Marines and 3,300 Army ...
Time flies. Ask any of “The Greatest Generation” survivors of World War II. And it flies for others also. Seventy-five years ago also seems like only yesterday to me. And the nearer a person is to ...
Vanessa Raulston said she and Abigail, her 2-year-old, had a picture of her sailor husband next to the bed, and talked to it every night. Starting Christmas Eve, it’ll be the real thing. Just in time ...
In 1944, the tiny island of Peleliu was the site of the some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, as Marines and Army soldiers fought to seize an airfield carved into its coral rocks. Saturday, ...
On July 4th, U-T San Diego will publish a special section that focuses on the long, large and evolving presence of the Navy in San Diego. The package will include a story about the amphibious assault ...
The amphibious assault ship Peleliu will return to San Diego on Wednesday, delivering its crew home in time for Christmas and completing its final tour. After 34 years of service, the big-deck ...
The last Tarawa-class big deck amphibious warship will decommission in a ceremony at Naval Station San Diego on Tuesday ahead of joining the Navy’s inactive reserve fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the ...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Three U.S. Navy warships and an expeditionary force of Camp Pendleton-based Marines trained to extract Americans who get caught up in mob violence overseas departed Monday for a ...
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