In September 1944, U.S. Marines landed on the island of Peleliu, beginning a campaign that would test the limits of American ...

As Japan marks 80 years since WWII’s end, “Peleliu” stands out among recent war films for using animation to portray the ...

There is a fairly good chance that you have never heard of the tiny Pacific Island of Peleliu. With its size of approximately ...

The battle of Peleliu, though certainly not the bloodiest of the Pacific war, was a ghastly ordeal. The rugged hills of the tiny coral island were honeycombed with caves and bunkers whose determined ...

(CNN) — A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of the war and ...

Smith, now 87, went back to Peleliu in 2004 to revisit the scene of his first combat mission as an 18-year-old Marine as part of a documentary film, "Once Were Enemies," that's making its American ...