KOROR, Palau -- A U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules delivered U.S. Army Pacific Soldiers onto the newly renovated Angaur Airfield for training exercises in the Republic of Palau, Sept. 5. The successful ...
A lone monkey, about the size of a toddler, leaps from branch to branch above the wreckage of a World War II plane. It looks harmless, but it is one of about 5,000 long-tailed macaque monkeys ...
A propeller from a World War II plane stuck in a tree on Angaur. Angaur and Peleliu, a nearby island, were the scene of intense fighting between the U.S. and Japan in 1944. A memorial built to fallen ...
To assist in reaching out to these remote locations, a U.S. Army medical outreach team educated the populations of Angaur and Peleliu, at their local elementary schools and city centers, during ...
September was the worst month of the war for Japanese aviation. U.S. flyers destroyed more than 1,300 planes — close to the maximum monthly output credited to Jap factories by the most conservative ...