The Marines recently landed their first fixed wing aircraft on a recertified airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, which jarheads captured after brutal combat in 1944. The KC-130J Super Hercules ...

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 now a ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - On a muggy morning in September 1944, Pfc. Eugene Sledge and the 1st Marine Division landed on a beach at Peleliu, a Pacific island between New Guinea and the ...

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. Saturday, ...

A Marine Corps KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft with 1st Marine Air Wing, lands on a newly designated airstrip on the island of Peleliu, Republic of Palau, June 22. (Lance Cpl. Hannah Hollerud/Marine ...

The US Marines landed on Peleliu on September 15, 1944, expecting a quick victory, only to face a hidden network of bunkers, fortified caves, and deadly artillery fire. Corpsmen and infantry endured ...