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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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Didn't really see what I was looking for in there, as interesting as it was. Just absolute numbers.
Found this:
The ghastly horror of D-Day, left 210 of the 1st Marines dead with an additional 500 casualties.
The second day brought hand-to-hand combat in a former barracks near the airfield.
By the end of day two the airfield was seized. The 1st Marines were already depleted by 33 %.
By the 17th, they suffered 1,000 of the total 1,500 casualties and were now facing the Umurbrogol Mountains where the Japanese had pulled back into the 500 intricate, well camouflaged caves and pillboxes.
http://www.visit-palau.com/60thanniv/history.html
Another very descriptive link says 200 dead and 900 wounded by 1st Marines on D-Day.
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Battle_of_Peleliu
Still doesn't tell us how many died or were injured in the run across the airstrip, the emphasis of the battle depicted in the last episode. Just curious.
Another interesting stat:
The costs at Peleliu held warnings aplenty for the remaining Allied operations to be conducted across the Pacific to Japan. Even with total local air and naval superiority, with lavish naval gunfire and bombs, with the dreaded napalm weaponry, and with a 4:1 troop superiority, the seizure of Peleliu consumed one American casualty and 1,589 rounds of heavy and light troop ammunition for each single Japanese defender killed or driven from his prepared position.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/inde...7-00/sec11.htm
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