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 ...

The large delegation has traveled to Peleliu because the Americans want to restore and reopen an old airfield. It was originally built by the Japanese, who ruled Palau as a colony from 1914 to 1945.

In 1944, the tiny island of Peleliu was the site of the some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, as Marines and Army soldiers fought to seize an airfield carved into its coral rocks.

The Japanese Air Administration Building. ... The reconstruction of the historic airfield on Peleliu is due to rising tensions in the Pacific Rim. The adversary is no longer Japan, but China.

Tents have been set up in front of the local administration building, with plastic chairs underneath. ... In September 1944, the Americans landed on Peleliu to take control of the airfield.

(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 ...

PELELIU AIRFIELD, Palau -- The muddy gravel airstrip on Palau's Peleliu Island, hacked out of tropical jungle by the Imperial Japanese Navy during wartime, has seen few flights over the past 20 years.

While the North Carolina location adds more air options for training, the Peleliu airstrip puts Marine and joint military aircraft within 1,000 miles of Manila, Philippines, and 1,400 miles from ...

US Marines, sailors and local residents observe a Marine Corps KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft with 1st Marine Air Wing land on a newly designated airstrip on the island of Peleliu on June 22, 2024.