Palau Islands Campaign: Battle for Peleliu Airfield
Dan HewitsonConstructed by the Japanese in 1944 on the small island in the Palau Islands group, Peleliu airfield was seen as a potent threat to US efforts in the Pacific theatre. Poised between the key locations of New Guinea, the Marianas and Mindanao, the airfield provided a threat to the flanks of the encroaching US forces….
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