Yea I've read a few times the fact that Peleliu held no strategical military value at all, an when you factor in how brutal an nasty the fighting was plus the casualties we took taking it, it would of been better to of by passed it. My grandpa fought on that Island, he never spoke about it or the war really when he was alive, do remember 1 time they came over an I was watching a show about the Pacific war turned to see him an my grandma walking in the house n almost immediately he stopped n had this lost stare at the tv, like the thousand yard stare you hear about. Can't imagine what him an those guys really went through there.
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