11-213 Garand Picture of the Day - Peleliu

[Mark in Rochester]

Wounded on Peleliu
A wounded Marine is treated by a corpsman as his comrades look on. Peleliu, October 1944.


3rd Bn. 5th Marine Regiment -- are crammed into a "duck" as they head to Peleliu's front lines. October 1, 1944.


5th Marine Regiment
Line of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment march, gear on their backs, through the hills at Peleliu. Oct. 1944.

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[Bill Hughes]

I was on Peleliu for a day in 1955 and there were still plenty of war trash remaining around. I spent most of the week on Angar , an island just several miles south of Peleliu. The marines took Angar first as it had a much smaller jap force on it and it also had a airfield. When the marines invaded Peleliu the Air Corp brought in b-24s and used them to bomb peleliu. The B-24s never had to leave the traffic pattern to make their bombing runs. When the fighting moved on, the bombers that were too damaged to fly were smashed by bulldozers and left there. Thet were still there in 1955. Bill Hughes

[Bill Hollinger]

Ouch!

[A. F Medic]

As an ex medic, that wounded Marine has 2 and third degree burns. The blisters indicate that he has been burned for awhile! He has to be in a lot of pain. Bring on the morphine syrettes!!!!

[Sarge1998]

The last few years I have picked back up my reading and interest in WWII events, Peleliu can only be described as Hell. Listening/reading veterans speak of their experience is nothing any sane person would choose to have been there. Those men have me in awe of what they accomplished, remember they had no media like we have today to inform or to reach out.

I have an uncle who was one of (2) survivors of a B-29 crash in Japan during the mid-50's, he received severe burns that only the last few years have realized how much he must have suffered. He is alive today and is my only hero that I personally know. His B-29 was collecting fallout data from Russian nuke blasts.