Eighty-two years ago today, on September 15, 1944, a battle began on a coral island called Peleliu. The commanding general had told his men it would take four days. In reality it took more than two months and produced the highest casualty rate of any amphibious assault in American military history. Of roughly 11,000 Japanese defenders, only
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