Des Matsutaro is heading home to the island of Peleliu. A group of travelers and historians are along for the ride. They are about to step back into a savage World War II battle in a little-known ...

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 ...

The Peleliu airstrip, also known as the Sledge runway, was the scene of the 1944 Battle of Peleliu, in which 8,000 Marines and soldiers were wounded, and about 1,800 service members were killed ...