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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. Battle of Peleliu order of battle - Wikipedia

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    Whether possession of the island was necessary for the Allied cause has been the source of much controversy. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Peleliu - Wikipedia

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    Peleliu (or Beliliou) is an island in the island nation of Palau. Peleliu, along with two small islands to its northeast, forms one of the sixteen states of Palau . The island is notable as the location of the Battle of Peleliu in World War II .

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. William H. Rupertus - Wikipedia

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    He led the 1st Marine Division during the Battle of Cape Gloucester and the Battle of Peleliu. His leadership in the latter was severely criticized, both within the Marine Corps and publicly. In the US, it was a controversial battle because of the island's negligible strategic value and the high casualty rate, which exceeded that of all other ...

  9. Lewis K. Bausell - Wikipedia

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    During combat at Peleliu, he covered an exploding Japanese hand grenade in order to protect his comrades, and died of his wounds three days later. Bausell was the only enlisted Marine from the Nation's capital, Washington, D.C. to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during World War II.