Peleliu Travel Guide

 canuckmike Says:  In between the airstrip and Bloody Nose Ridge is the Japanese Headquarters Communication Center. This was the main building for the Japanese while on Peleliu. Today it is just a shell of what it used to be. The jungle has taken over much of the building especially the roof... 

 canuckmike Says:  Both Located on the west side of Peleliu they got their names from the Americans who designated them as places to land and invade Peleliu from. Orange Beach is the more important one and the one that was hardest fought for as many men lost there lives here. Orange Beach sits... 

 canuckmike Says:  At the south end of the village of Klouklubed is a monument to the RCT 321 81st Infantry Wildcat Division of the American military. The Wildcat Div. fought battles across Micronesia and especially the Palau Islands. Their slogan was "Wildcats never quit." The monument is... 

 canuckmike Says:  Besides a place to catch boats, the South Dock is a nice place to kill some time. The most notable feature about this place is that it is lined with old rusting American pontoons. It was the Americans who developed this area during World War 2. There is a nice field with... 

 canuckmike Says:  Bloody Nose Ridge was a huge battle site on Peleliu that many American and Japanese lost their lives here. There are two monuments here on the Umurbrogal Mountains, one for the Americans which was the first one here and one for the Japanese which came afterwards. I find it... 

 canuckmike Says:  This is the main village on the island (there are only 4 villages if you can call them that) and is where most of the people live and most of the shops are. Klouklubed is a quite a clean place with nice wide streets and friendly people. There are a couple of sights to see... 

 canuckmike Says:  There have been many stories of Japanese soldiers who held out and some kept the war going because they did not believe that World War 2 had ended. Peleliu was one of the places where this had happened. Second Lieutenant Ei Yamaguchi and 33 of his fellow men continued on a... 

 canuckmike Says:  This was the sight of the very first bombing of Peleliu during World War 2 that would be the start of one of the bloodiest battles. It was a cave that the Japanese made into a bunker where they stored and I believe made ammunitions. It is a fair size of around 15 metres by... 

 canuckmike Says:  There used to be an American servicemen cementary on Peleliu but the bodies were repatriated back to the USA a few years after World War 2. Today it is a monument. There are 2 large monuments dedicated to the Wildcat Division and a white cross in between the 2. Just to the... 

 canuckmike Says:  This is probaly one of the more scenic sites to visit in Peleliu. It is a WW2 Japanese cannon slightly inside a cave. You climb a couple flights of stairs and then this is right there. You can walk off to the left which leads to a cave entrance and brings you to the rear of... 

 canuckmike Says:  The 1000 Man Cave is the largest of the caves the Japanese used and was the last one to be taken by the Americans. It is a huge cave with many entrances to wander around. The Japanese used it for just about everything. There was a hospital inside in which there are still... 

 canuckmike Says:  Since Peleliu was such a battle site, there is bound to be some wreckage left over. In fact there is quite few vehicles staying lying around. Most of the stuff that I saw, the interiors were gutted and it was basically a shell of a vehicle left. There is stuff from both... 

 canuckmike Says:  The Peleliu World War 2 Memorial Museum is located in the southwestish part of the island and is an interesting museum. What I found interesting about it was a lot of it's artifacts. It looks like they just went around a dug all the WW2 stuff up. There are rusted out guns,... 

 canuckmike Says:  Since Peleliu was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific and lasting for such a long time, there is bound to be old, unused ammunition and stuff that did not go off. Adding to that that when Palau became an independant nation they stopped all digging with...