SECOND WORLD WAR PICTURES , TEXTS , VIDEOS AND COMMENTS BY VIDEOS

  THE BATTLE OF PELELIU (THE HISTORY OF THE BATTLE)  The Battle of Peleliu, named Operation Stalemate II by the US military, was battled between the US and Japan during World War II's Mariana and Palau Campaign, from September 15 to November 27, 1944, on the island of Peleliu.  Marines from the US first Marine Division and, later, warriors from the US Army's 81st Infantry Division, battled to catch an airstrip on the little coral island of Peleliu.  This fight was important for a bigger hostile mission known as Operation Forager, which ran from June to November 1944 at the Pacific Theater.  General William Rupertus, authority of the first Marine Division, anticipated that the island would be ensured in four days.  In any case, after rehashed routs by the Imperial Army in past crusades on the islands, Japan grew new island protection strategies and all around expounded strongholds that considered unbending opposition, expanding the fight for over two months.  The Japanese protec

 

  British Light Tanks MK VIB of the 7th Armoured Division on patrol in the desert, 2 August 1940.

  Italian Pilots of the  Regia Aeronautica  in Egypt study a map (September 1940).

      Italian prisoners on the march from Sidi Barrani December 16, 1940.     This Battle of Sidi Barrani was the first battle of Britain’s     Operation Compass, the first major Allied operation of the Western Desert Campaign.     The operation was a complete success for Great Britain.

  The Nazi propaganda picture shows an Italian Soldier in North Africa during the African campaign.