Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:52 am Post subject: Battle for Peleliu Island
OK so i watched a documentry on this and it said that on D-Day they encounted resistance on the first day, the resistance stopped there attack but what the Americans didnt realise was that it was a light holding force and not heavy resistence as they thought.
However on a website which lists the day by day events it stated that it was heavy resistance and not a holding force. Now normally i have found the doco i was watching to be pretty accurate, i accept that the american forces did have high losses and that there attack was held up quite a bit by this force, but was it a heavy force or just a holding force.
I also know that there was a large force hiding in caves and tunnels on bloody nose rigdge.
on a side note its quite parculiar i came accross this particular battle within 24 hours in two different places.
I read a book on this a long time ago. What I remember is that the island never needed to be captured. It served no strategic value and could of been bypassed. The Americans took huge losses here.
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