‘Like Two Scor­pi­ons In A Bot­tle’: The 80th Anniver­sary Of The Inva­sion Of Peleliu

Those mar­gin­al­ly famil­iar with World War II will no doubt rec­og­nize names like Nor­mandy, Iwo Jima, or Guadal­canal. But like many of the oth­er bat­tles into which Amer­i­can boys have been thrown over the cen­turies, only the most ardent his­to­ry buffs can relay much, if any­thing, about the agony that was the strug­gle for the island of Peleliu.
This month, we mark the 80th anniver­sary of the Sep­tem­ber 1944 land­ings on Peleliu in the Palau Island chain by the F …