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 ...

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 ...

United States Marine Corps.The Marine Corps will celebrate its 250th birthday on November 10, 2025.In the Price of Freedom we take a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The three narrative threads occasionally intersect, and cover events such as the Guadalcanal campaign and the Battles of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa, as well as Basilone’s contribution to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Image number two shows a Navy Humvee disembarking from a landing craft attached to the USS Peleliu, as part of beach assault exercises with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. Next up, we have one ...