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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1784186" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/11060320_692471747549287_5743869146804212359_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://United States Marines climbing down the nets into landing craft during the Battle of Peleliu, September-November 1944. Peleliu is a small coral island, one of the southern most islands of the present-day Republic of Palau, situated in the western Pacific Ocean, east of the Philippines. The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, involved marines of the First Marine Division and later soldiers of the US Army 81st Infantry Division. The aim was to take the airstrip used by Japanese bombers, and which was considered to be of vital strategic importance for the US if they were to continue the liberation of Japanese-occupied Pacific islands, particularly the nearby Philippines. However, the island proved incredible difficult to secure and the original estimated four-days dragged on in to a bloody two month campaign due to strong Japanese fortifications. The resulting US casualty rate was the highest for the Marine Corps during the Pacific War. USMC Colonel Merwin Silverthorn, one of the commanders involved in the operation, later remarked that "everything about Peleliu left a bad taste in your mouth." Eighteen-year-old Eugene Sledge, who was in the second wave ashore, offers a vivid account of the landings: 'We moved ahead, watching the frightful spectacle. Huge geysers of water rose around the amtracs [landing vehicles] ahead of us as they approached the reef. The beach was now marked along its length by a continuous sheet of flame backed by a thick wall of smoke. It seemed as though a huge volcano had erupted from the sea, and rather than heading for an island, we were being drawn into the vortex of a flaming abyss. For many it was to be oblivion. ...' Photographer: Griffin Image courtesy of the United States Marine Corps History Division, Peleliu 117058" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> United States Marines climbing down the nets into landing craft during the Battle of Peleliu, September-November 1944.Peleliu is a small coral island, one of the southern most islands of the present-day Republic of Palau, situated in the western Pacific Ocean, east of the Philippines.The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, involved marines of the First Marine Division and later soldiers of the US Army 81st Infantry Division. The aim was to take the airstrip used by Japanese bombers, and which was considered to be of vital strategic importance for the US if they were to continue the liberation of Japanese-occupied Pacific islands, particularly the nearby Philippines.However, the island proved incredible difficult to secure and the original estimated four-days dragged on in to a bloody two month campaign due to strong Japanese fortifications. The resulting US casualty rate was the highest for the Marine Corps during the Pacific War. USMC Colonel Merwin Silverthorn, one of the commanders involved in the operation, later remarked that "everything about Peleliu left a bad taste in your mouth."Eighteen-year-old Eugene Sledge, who was in the second wave ashore, offers a vivid account of the landings:'We moved ahead, watching the frightful spectacle. Huge geysers of water rose around the amtracs [landing vehicles] ahead of us as they approached the reef.The beach was now marked along its length by a continuous sheet of flame backed by a thick wall of smoke. It seemed as though a huge volcano had erupted from the sea, and rather than heading for an island, we were being drawn into the vortex of a flaming abyss. For many it was to be oblivion. ...'Photographer: GriffinImage courtesy of the United States Marine Corps History Division, Peleliu 117058</blockquote>

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