In 1944, the tiny island of Peleliu was the site of the ... The name ‘Sledge’ honors Eugene Sledge, a Marine who fought in the Battle of Peleliu and wrote “With the Old Breed: At Peleliu ...

“The battle was fought on a Palauan cultural landscape,” says Knecht. Peleliu, along with the rest of the Palauan archipelago, was settled at least 3,000 years ago by migrants from islands in ...

Author Buzz Bissinger discusses how military rivalries impacted U.S. success during the World War II Battle of Peleliu (1944). Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

The Marines named the rebuilt landing strip the “Sledge” runway in honor of a veteran of the Peleliu battle, Pfc. Eugene Sledge, a mortarman on the island who wrote about it in a memoir ...

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