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Killed in Action. David, Lord Davies, 29, reputedly richest man in the British Army, Major in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, coal, banking, and railroad heir of the late, liberal 1st Baron of Llandinam; in the European theater...
...casualties kept climbing, too. Since some of its units landed last fortnight on two-by-six-mile Peleliu to aid the hard-pressed marines, the 81st Infantry Division's casualties had approximately doubled, to 251 killed, 1,465 wounded. The 1st Marine Division's three-week total (1,038 killed or missing, 4,650 wounded) was already the heaviest for a single division in the Pacific...
...1st Lieutenant...
...rest of the 2,500 Japs formerly on Angaur had apparently moved before the battle to next door Peleliu, where the 1st Marine Division, at a place called "Bloody Nose," met some of the stiffest resistance of the Pacific...
Through these defenses, up these slopes, the marines fought. They rushed defiles on Bloody Nose, and burned out caves with flamethrowers. While they were at the bloody business, many of them were cut down by machine-gun and mortar fire. The division's 1st Regiment soon suffered 60% casualties. After ten days the marines had occupied five-sixths of the 2-by-6-mile island. Interim score: 7,313 Jap dead. Still to go: about 3,200 (estimated strength of the original garrison was upped from...