Going ashore, the plan called for the 1st Marine Regiment to land to the north, the 5th Marine Regiment in the center, and the 7th Marine Regiment in the south. Hitting the beach, the 1st and 7th Marines would cover the flanks as the 5th Marines drove inland to capture Peleliu's airfi...
of retaking the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur stated that the Allies had a moral obligation to liberate the islands as he had told the people, “I shall return,” when he was forced to retreat to Australia in the winter of 1942. Other plans to bypass the Philippines and attack ...
You will lead desperate Marines struggling ashore on Tarawa, face a counterattack of HA GO tanks at the Peleliu airfield, fight for Kitano Point on Iwo Jima, and more. It isn’t, however, all about the Marines; Heroes of the Pacific comes chock full of the U.S. Army’s finest, as ...
At the north end of the atoll, elements of the 4th Marines followed a similar strategy and established firebases on islands dubbed Ivan, Jacob, Albert, Allen, and Abraham. Attacking Roi-Namur on February 1, they succeeded in securing the airfield on Roi that day and eliminated Japanese resist...