Word: peleliu
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...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...
Last week the haggard ist Marine Division got some help from fresh units of the 81st Army Division, which landed, pushed through 4.000 yds., then encircled Bloody Nose. Peleliu's collapse was only a matter of time, might come in the typical banzai charge wherein all Japs are killed or kill themselves...
...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...
...days after the assault on Peleliu Admiral Wilkinson made his second move. He gave Major General Paul J. Mueller's 81st ("Wildcat") Army Division its baptism of fire by sending it ashore on southernmost, phosphate-producing Angaur Island, six miles south of Peleliu. Initial resistance was lighter this time...
...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...