Battle of Peleliu

Deutsch: Die Schlacht um Peleliu oder Operation Stalemate II war eine der blutigsten im Zweiten Weltkrieg.

English: Like the bloody World War II island campaigns before it, the Battle of Peleliu was a fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific.

Français : La bataille de Peleliu (Opération Stalemate) lors de la Campagne du Pacifique, entre septembre et novembre 1944, fut l'une des plus sanglantes de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale.

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  Battle of Peleliu

The Battle

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  The first wave of LVTs moves toward the invasion beaches, passing through the inshore bombardment line of LCI gunboats
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  Amphibious trac coming out of an LST H-45 minute on D-Day. They are about to land on Peleliu. September 1944
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  Marines wade ashore Peleliu - September 1944
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  Orange Beach 2 - Peleliu
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  Amtrac shelter. Engaged in the bitter struggle to establish the Peleliu beachhead
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  Marines held up on the beach at Peleliu
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  A Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless from the U.S. Navy in flight over Peleliu, September 1944
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  Marine with a radio on the beach
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  Marines wait in their foxholes as others blast a Japanese held cave in the nearby hill. Late September early October 1944
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  Lt. Col. R.G. Balance, Champagne, Ill. Of the 1st Division goes about the business of leading his pioneer battalion against the Japanese
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  Combat action on Peleliu
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  At home in the field. Evening meal to be prepared from rations- canned pork loaf, crackers, lemonade, and dried peaches
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  Business as unusual might well be another sign put up on this Peleliu Island barbershop
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  Japanese fortifications on Peleliu, September 1944.
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  Marine Pfc. Douglas Lightheart (right) cradles his 30-cal. machine gun in his lap, while he and his buddy Pfc. Gerald Churchby take time out for a cigarette, while mopping up the enemy on Peleliu Is. September 14, 1944
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  Marines walk past dead Japanese as they move in for the kill on the Peninsula on Peleliu
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  Skull and danger sign in combat area. October 1944
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  A wounded Marine, while he waits for the stretcher-bearers to come for him, is given a refreshing drink of water from the canteen of a buddy while the Marines fight the enemy in the rough country of Peleliu
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  Last Volley is fired over graves of fighting men who died in the assault and capture of Peleliu during the dedication ceremonies at the Armed Forces Cemetery. December 27, 1944
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  An US Chance Vought F4U Corsair aircraft attacks a japanese bunker at the Umurbrogol-mountain with napalm bombs.