re: #62 Dave In Austin

Thanks for posting this .

My father Capt. John S. Todd (Ret.) USMC. Lost his leg and another Marine was killed in a shell crater when another artillery round landed in the same hole.

Peleliu will be ingrained in my families history for a long time.

It see the island now gives me some feels…….

Wow! Thank you—

Recently, I’ve been trying to understand the land and sea battles of the war in the south Pacific. The magnitude of the sea battles and the viciousness of the land battles are hard to take in without returning over and over.