Word: angaur
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Buckner was still in Alaska, still watching, when Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz launched the drive across the Central Pacific that was to cut a fiery path through Tarawa, Makin, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, Angaur, Iwo Jima. Battles were fought with companies, regiments, divisions. That march was still in progress last June, when Buckner at last got the word to go to Washington, then to Hawaii to organize a full-fledged army...
Fury in the Pacific (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps-War Activities Committee) is a short depicting the Marines' capture of the island Peleliu and the Army's latching-down of its neighbor Angaur. The picture is one of a series which the Army is aiming at people in war plants and out of them, urging them respectively to stay there and to get there. It is horrifyingly well designed to serve its purpose. Few war films to date have equaled its record of the fury of war; none has approached its terrible concentration upon...
From halfway across the world in the Philippines comes a veteran who got his Pacific baptism by fire at Angaur, then landed with MacArthur on Leyte -Battlefronts Writer John Walker. And from this same exploding front comes another TIME correspondent - who covered 30,000 miles of ocean in five months, was on 17 Navy vessels, eyewitnessed the first raid on Manila and the carrier strikes at Palau and Morotai. His name is Bill Gray...
When the Japs were masters of Angaur, in the Palau Islands, they tied noncooperative natives to trees and bashed in their heads with coconut-palm logs. This put a quietus on native dancing, which the Japanese considered a heathenish practice...
After nearly four weeks the Japs still held out on Peleliu's Bloody Nose Ridge, and in a small pocket on nearby Angaur Island. Already on Peleliu 11,083 Japs had been killed, 214 captured; on Angaur 1,150 were dead and eleven were prisoners...