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I agree with the author. Peleliu was unnecessary. The only things it did was provide a glimpse of future Japanese defenses and open an expressway to Heaven for Marines killed there in action.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
It also gave E. B. Sledge some great material for his memoir--one of the best ever written by a Marine: "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa."
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