Des Matsutaro is heading home to the island of Peleliu. A group of travelers and historians are along for the ride. They are about to step back into a savage World War II battle in a little-known ...

“The battle was fought on a Palauan cultural landscape,” says Knecht. Peleliu, along with the rest of the Palauan archipelago, was settled at least 3,000 years ago by migrants from islands in ...

The Marines named the rebuilt landing strip the “Sledge” runway in honor of a veteran of the Peleliu battle, Pfc. Eugene ...

Palau, a nation of about 18,000 people, has drawn China's anger by refusing to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

After losing a series of battles on islands in the Pacific Theater ... a war history researcher who published a book on the Battle in Peleliu based on testimonies from the 34 survivors, said ...

Today, 80 years after the Battle of Peleliu, the Pacific Islands are once again becoming vital to American national security in the face of China’s malign advances throughout the Pacific.

The Peleliu airstrip, also known as the Sledge runway, was the scene of the 1944 Battle of Peleliu ... Peleliu, an island of Micronesia that belongs to the nation of Palau, is part of the ...

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Today, 80 years after the Battle of Peleliu, the Pacific Islands ... Republicans do not have the luxury of wasting all their political capital on a damaging internal family feud that would drag on ...