The Marines recently landed their first fixed wing aircraft on a recertified airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, which jarheads captured after brutal combat in 1944. The KC-130J Super ...

A recently refurbished, World War II-era airfield is the second such site ... recertification of an airfield on the Pacific ...

“Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II,” is No. 8 on James Hallas’ well-regarded list of titles covering ...

With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa He was assigned to the 1st Marine Division as a replacement, and trained as a mortarman. He fought on Peleliu in September of 1944, and on Okinawa in ...

Haldane was only 27 when a Japanese sniper's bullet ended his life Oct. 12, 1944, on Peleliu Island in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Few people who knew him back then are alive today.

Dad's Secret War: France 1944, narrated by Kevin Bacon, and Peleliu: WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield, narrated by Kyle Chandler, both received the prestigious "Award of Excellence." ...

The Marines, including the newly christened “Sledgehammer,” continue the battle of Peleliu against an enemy determined ... The mutual brutality and devastation of the Pacific theater of World War II ...