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The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II by the US military, was fought between the United States and Japan during the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign of World War II, from 15 September to 27 November 1944, on the island of Peleliu.
War artist Thomas Lea's The Two-Thousand Yard Stare An exhausted U.S. Marine exhibits the thousand-yard stare after two days of constant fighting at the Battle of Eniwetok, February 1944. The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare ) is the blank , unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress ...
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 .
The Anglo-German naval arms race became a considerable source of tension between Germany and Britain prior to World War I. Royal Navy warships pictured above in battle formation. Although the Haldane Mission of February 1912 failed to halt the Anglo-German naval arms race , the race suddenly paused in late 1912 as Germany cut its naval budget.
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.
Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localized to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war ...
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
The entire Peleliu engagement had the highest casualty rate of all the battles in the Pacific, and here we get a sense of why." [ 4 ] Emily St. James of The A.V. Club gave the episode an "A" grade and wrote, "After four weeks of buildup and four weeks of sporadic combat, we finally get the Saving Private Ryan moment of The Pacific .