re: #358 Gus

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The classic painting of the Battle of Peleliu, Pacific Theater, WWII. Fought in the autumn of 1944, it took far longer than planned for the US to take Peleliu from the Japanese. In large part this was because Peleliu was the first battle in which the Japanese switched from their previous tactic of ‘waterline defense’ to a system of defense in depth.