The Battle of Peleliu: Across the Airfield (Part 2)

The Battle of Peleliu enters a new deadlier phase as US Marines cross the airfield and fight into the Urmurbrogol Mountain to take the island of Peleliu. 

The dash across the airfield is met with fierce Japanese fire that takes its tolls on the Marines. Once the airfield is taken, the fighting mostly shifts to taking the Urmurbrogol Mountain, or as the Marines come to call it, Bloody Nose Ridge. Major General William Rupertus orders frontal attack after attack into the Urmurbrogol with devastating results, especially for Chesty Puller's 1st Marine Regiment.

Thanks to:

• Henry Sledge, the author of ‘The Old Breed... the Complete Story Revealed: A Father, a Son, and How WWII in the Pacific Shaped Their Lives:’
• Joseph Wheelan, author of 'Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield'
• Professor John McManus, co-host of the World War II Live podcast and author of ‘Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944’.

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