10-068 Garand Picture of the Day - U.S. Marines on Peleliu.

[Mark in Rochester]

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa is a World War II memoir by Eugene Sledge, a United States Marine. Since its first publication in 1981, With the Old Breed has been recognized as one of the better first-hand accounts of combat in the Pacific during World War II. The memoir is based on notes Sledge kept tucked away in a pocket-sized Bible he carried with him during battles.



US Marines of 1st Div. pinned down by heavy fire from entrenched Japanese troops during intial landings on Peleliu Island.
Location: Peleliu, Palau, Caroline Islands
Date taken: October 1944

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