FACTS ABOUT WHY WAS THE BATTLE OF PELELIU IMPORTANT REVEALED

With the benefit of hindsight, it became obvious that the complete campaign had been strategically needless. Approximately Halsey had feared just before the invasion, the Japanese garrison on Peleliu posed no substantive risk to Macarthur’s landings within the Philippines.The battle from the Umurbrogol Pocket would be taken over by the 7th Marine