PELELIU IS TINY. Just seven by two miles, but the scene of one of the more bitter island battles fought between the United States and Japan in World War II. It was supposed to take the Americans four days to clear the island of 14,000-strong Japanese; instead it took 73 days in the fall of 1944 because although the U.S. quickly captured the airfield, the Japanese fell back into prepared
DEADLY REMAINS
Aug 31, 2021
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