Nagai, a former Imperial Japanese Army sergeant known as the last survivor of the 34 stragglers who returned from the Battle of Peleliu, died of bowel cancer on Nov. 4 in his hometown in Ibaraki ...

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(Top: NARA; RG 127; Above: Courtesy Rick Knecht) On the morning of September 15, 1944, some 18,000 U.S. marines from the First Division invaded the tiny Western Pacific island of Peleliu ...

That move followed the service's June recertification of an airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu. The two locations are ...

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