Today, Ken Burns will and PBS will air FUBAR on The War. It will discuss Peleliu. My Dad was on Peleliu. He always pronounced it Pel-Lee-You.
It was always glossed over in the history books about the war in the Pacific. I would read about Midway. Or Iwo Jima which he missed. Or Tarawa which he also missed, but Peleliu was always kind of a footnote.
As a kid, I had figured that the reason he survived was because not much fighting went on. The War to me was in Europe.
I thought his great accomplishment in the war was guarding a Catholic Cemetery in China after the War. Or meeting a 12 foot cobra on the path on Pavuvu.
But I was wrong.