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US Marines faced 76 hours of hell in the first major island landing
America’s island-hopping strategy in the Pacific grew from decades of planning, rivalry, and hard lessons about distance, ...
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How a tiny Pacific island became one of the most brutal and costly battles ever fought by the US Marines
In September 1944, during the island-hopping campaign across the Pacific, U.S. Marines launched an invasion of the small island of Peleliu in the Palau archipelago. American commanders believed the ...
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