75th Anniversary Commemoration of the WWII Battle Of Peleliu (2)
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Date:
Saturday, November 02, 2019 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Duration:
9 Hours
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Event Contact
75Peleliu@gmail.com
Extra Information About Event
Regular Fort Morgan admission rates apply
On November 1-2, living historians from all over the country and Japan will be at Fort Morgan to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Peleliu, which took place in the Pacific Theater of Operations during WWII.
From September to November of 1944, US Marines of the 1st Marine Division, Soldiers of the Army’s 81st Infantry Division, along with Navy Seabees fought to take the small island of Peleliu, in the Palau Islands, from the Japanese. Part of Admiral Nimitz Island Hopping