Word: angaur
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Palau. On the ground, where Japs dig in and wait to be rooted out with grenade and bayonet, no such overwhelming combat superiority is possible. Yet more than 10,000 Japs had been killed on Peleliu and Angaur in the southern Palaus. (By last weekend seven other nearby small islands had been occupied, including Ngesebus and Kongauru.) Resistance simmered down to one small pocket on Angaur and "Bloody Nose" Ridge on Peleliu...
...latest U.S. amphibious landing at Angaur was made ten months after the first heavily opposed landing in the Pacific, at Tarawa. This dispatch from TIME Correspondent John Walker shows what Americans have learned, in those ten months, about such ugly jobs...
Present History. Meanwhile at Angaur Island, southernmost of the Palau group, the 81st Army Division proceeded to clean up lastman resistance-the mopping-up which always costs U.S. casualties-and to count its score of victory: 975 dead Japs...
...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...
...capture of Peleliu and Angaur alone will not secure the anchorage. That is situated off the northern Palaus: 25-mile-long Babelthuap and Koror (where the capital is located). But, said Admiral Nimitz: "We will have a base from which to cover and support General MacArthur's Philippine campaign...