RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:38 pm
They were explaining that since the whole island of Peleliu was a battlefield, there is lots of unexploded ordinance potentially anywhere.
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RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:39 pm
sometimes it is small
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:40 pm
and sometimes large
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:42 pm
if you are planning on building something you can request Cleared Ground Demining to make sure the land is safe.
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:45 pm
it seems that they find something every month
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:49 pm
After lunch and just up the road is a Japanese Zero 20 yards into the jungle
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:50 pm
It is thought that its original location would have been somewhere on the airfield. After the Americans captured the airfield, it was pushed out of the way and the jungle reclaimed it.
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:52 pm
Jerry told us that veterans of this battle are always amazed at how the jungle has taken back the land they remember to be bombed and stripped of vegetation.
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:53 pm
landing gear
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:53 pm
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RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 3:57 pm
cockpit
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:01 pm
Next, we were taken to the beach known as “Orange 2.” It’s one of two landing beaches where the Marine 5th Regiment came ashore.
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:02 pm
It has been reclaimed by the jungle now.
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:03 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:03 pm
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RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:05 pm
what it looked like on September 15, 1944
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:12 pm
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RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:14 pm
Now we walk a little over 100 yards up the trail from the beach to the site of the original American servicemen cemetery.
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:15 pm
There are monuments to the 81st infantry division, but the graves are no longer there.
RE: Trip to Palau and Peleliu
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:16 pm
The Wildcat division
