[bert]

The Pacific episodes on Peleliu are among the most intense TV ever

[NFHale]

Peleliu was a horror.

All of it was.

My Uncle Joe, Dad’s oldest brother, got wounded badly on Okinawa. Made 7 amphibious landings in the Pacific, not a scratch, and he got messed up there, south of Naha. Jeep hit a mine or a buried artillery shell, him, the driver, and his captain went flying; Jeep pinned him to the ground, broke his hips and legs, and a Japanese patrol bayonetted him in the throat.

And he lived...

And he sure as HELL didn’t expatriate...

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yep. You don’t hear much about it, but it was a bloody battle. Many good men died there.