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Marines make first landing on renovated WWII airfield in the Pacific
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 ...
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Books: The Bloody Beaches
THE MARINES’ WAR (456 pp.) —Fletcher Pratf—Sloane ($5). On that September morning, a Japanese lieutenant of machine cannon on the island of Peleliu looked out over the Pacific Ocean and ...
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Willie Rushton
In September of 1944, Rushton and his unit invaded Peleliu along with the 1st Marine Division. For the first few days of the battle, Rushton’s and the other depot companies helped unload ...
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Eugene Sledge
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 ...
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78 years ago, the first Navajo Code Talkers joined the Marine Corps
On May 5, 1942, 29 men arrived at Recruit Depot San Diego for basic training in the Marine Corps. They would go ... to Tarawa, Peleliu, and onward to Iwo Jima. These men were the first of the ...
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WW2: What's the secret language that helped win the war?
Peleliu and Tarawa. This image shows Carl Gorman on the island of Saipan. Image caption, 5/7: Code Talking was immensely successful, giving the US Marines the upper hand in co-ordinating combat ...
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The Pacific
The Marines, including the newly christened “Sledgehammer,” continue the battle of Peleliu against an enemy determined to fight to the last man. Devastated by the loss of a revered leader, and ...