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  2. Battle of Peleliu - Wikipedia

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    With the Old Breed: At Peleliu And Okinawa. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195067142. Sloan, Bill (2005). Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944 – The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0743260090. Wright, Derrick (2005). To the Far Side of Hell: The Battle for Peleliu, 1944. Fire Ant Books. ISBN 0817352813.

  3. Kunio Nakagawa - Wikipedia

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    Kunio Nakagawa (中川 州男, Nakagawa Kunio, 23 January 1898 – 24 November 1944) was the commander of Japanese forces which defended the island of Peleliu in the Battle of Peleliu which took place from 15 September to 27 November 1944. He inflicted heavy losses on attacking U.S. Marines and held Peleliu Island for almost three months.

  4. Battle of Peleliu order of battle - Wikipedia

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    Peleliu was the least-known island that the US invaded in the Pacific Theatre. Pre-war maps were sorely lacking and the results of photoreconnaissance were poor. Thus, the Marines were completely unprepared for the hard, sharp surface of blistering hot bare coral over much of the landing area.

  5. Fury in the Pacific - Wikipedia

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    Fury in the Pacific is a 1945 American documentary short film about a pair of World War II battles in the Pacific: the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Angaur.It was co-produced by the United States Army, United States Navy, and the United States Marines, and directed by a series of combat cameraman — of whom nine became casualties of the battles they were filming. [1]

  6. A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of the war and ...

  7. Richard E. Kraus - Wikipedia

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    Richard Edward Kraus (November 24, 1925 – October 3, 1944) was a United States Marine who was killed in action in World War II during the Battle of Peleliu on October 3, 1944. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor, the highest military honor awarded by the United States. He threw himself on a Japanese grenade to save his comrades.

  8. Sadae Inoue - Wikipedia

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    Two major battles were fought in Palau under Inoue's command: the Battle of Anguar and the Battle of Peleliu. [2] Both were among the costliest of the war in terms of number of casualties on both sides, as Inoue deviated from previous Japanese tactics, eschewing banzai charges and making the best use of terrain and artificial fortifications in ...

  9. NFL playoff scenarios Week 15: Vikings, Steelers, Texans have ...

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    One NFL team's playoff clinching scenario is already off the table for Week 15, but several others still have a path to seal a spot on Sunday.