After nearly four weeks the Japs still held out on Peleliu’s Bloody Nose Ridge, and in a small pocket on nearby Angaur Island. Already on Peleliu 11,083 Japs had been killed, 214 captured ...

In front of Bloody Nose ridge on Peleliu. a Marine colonel fretted in his command post—a piece of tin under a poncho which shaded him from the sun. He worried the end of a frazzled cigaret ...