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Hardcover Landing in Hell: The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944 Book

ISBN: 1612006450

ISBN13: 9781612006451

Landing in Hell: The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944

On September 15, 1944, the United States, in its effort to defeat the Japanese Empire, invaded a tiny island named Peleliu, located at the southern end of the Palau Islands. This island chain lay in the main line of the American advance eastward. The Pacific High Command saw the conquering of this chain as a necessary prelude to General Douglas MacArthur's long-awaited liberation of the Philippines.

Of all the Palaus, Peleliu, the second southernmost,...

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