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Bloody Beaches:
The Marines
at Peleliu

Marines in
World War II
Commemorative Series

By Brigadier General
Gordon D. Gayle
U.S. Marine Corps (Ret)

“Down from Bloody Ridge Too Late. He’s Finished—Washed Up—Gone As we passed sick bay, still in the shell hole, it was crowded with wounded, and somehow hushed in the evening light. I noticed a tattered Marine standing quietly by a corpsman, staring stiffly at nothing. His mind had crumbled in battle, his jaw hung, and his eyes were like two black empty holes in his head.” Caption by the artist, Tom Lea.

TABLE OF DISTANCES FROM PELELIU
In Nautical Miles