The men of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment describe the ferocious battle for the Island of Peleliu, "an island on fire." In conditions that tested the sanity of each man, 9,000 Marines ...

In late 1944, on the scorching coral island of Peleliu, a single photograph would come to symbolize the unimaginable brutality of the Pacific War. As American forces pushed closer to Japan, Colonel ...