Victory At Peleliu: The 81St Infantry Division'S Pacific Campaign (Volume 30) (Campaigns And Commanders Series)

When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944, the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the Pacific. Now Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio tell the story of this campaign through the eyes of the 81st Infantry to offer a revised assessment. Victory at Peleliu demonstrates that without the army's help the marines could not have succeeded on Peleliu.

• | Author: Bobby C. Blair|John Peter Decioccio
• | Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 11, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 080614680X
• | ISBN-13: 9780806146805