DOC Victory at Peleliu: The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign (Campaigns and Commanders Series) by Bobby C. Blair; John Peter DeCioccio in History

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. If you or someone you know fought on Peleliu ... read this book.By MASI'm so glad I read this book. My dad was there. He wouldn't talk about it and it was always a puzzle what happened to him on Peleliu. I like the way the book is written. It's factual with excerpts from journals; letters and diary's of those who served. Written in event sequence; it gives the reader a really good concept of what happened and when. Mr. Blair does not get into commanding officer personalities much. At first I was disappointed but as I read realized the book is a historical account of what these men went through. It's hard acceptance to know these men went to a place; died or lost friends and that place would turn out to be of little or no use to the U.S. during the war in the Pacific.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. RIGHTING A VERY OLD WRONGBy hazelI'm very glad to have this book and to have recently discovered online at ancestry.com what the Tuffy wild cat insignia on one item among my father's WW2 memorabilia means. I've had it since his early death 5 years after his return from the occupation of Japan but had no context until now; nearly 69 years. At present my husband's reading the book. I'll review it later; but want to say that it's long past time that those whose parents served in WW2 should know everything about their parents' service. My dad would have been 96 this year; he died at 32. I feel I've been cheated not only of him but of knowledge that I needed to have known. Those in the Wildcat division who died at Peleliu or as a result of their service there have until now been cheated of the credit due them. This book is a start at righting the story of the battle of Peleliu. I hope there will be more books before long.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. ONE OF THE VICTORS CAME HOME FROM BLOODY NOSE RIDGE!By CopierGuyAs so many of the reviews were from "sons of The 81st Wildcat Division;" so also with me! A father coming home from fighting the "Japs" and almost silent through the growing up days of their sons regarding these Vets' experience. Anguar; Peleliu; Bloody Nose Ridge seems to be the experience of my Dad; but silent to his sons; except telling small bits at times during the growing up of me (a very tiny baby born Sep 1942; shown in leave from Camp Rucker; AL). As John F. told me; John M. while caring for the cattle during the very cold Minnesota winters of the Mid-1950s; "John; if you ever go into the Service; go into the Navy; you'll have a bed to sleep in; food to eat ~ not K Rations." The only fear he expressed; was as the tide went out on these tiny Palau islands; the coral formations revealing themselves in the dim light of night often appeared to be invading Japs coming ashore.My first post-war brother was born on Veterans' Day; Nov 11; 1946 later served in US Navy on a destroyer off Viet Nam; Dad having been discharged in early Dec 1945. My next Bro; born 6 years to the day from Dad's Sep 1942 firstborn in Sep 1948 was revealed that Dad's last landing was at the far N. end of Japan's Big Island after the Surrender. That Bro said Dad told him of the kindness of the Japanese in that remote. area. My 2 post-war brothers told of a week that our farm was visited by an 81st Wildcat buddy family from Louisville; KY came; took the younger boys; wives kids to a cooler area nearly 100 miles further north for a week of vacation (I was kept home to take care of the farm chores).Had he been more open to his sons re the pains of battle; I think sons Father would have been far closer to one another. There was no such thing as Post Traumatic Care from the VA. A lingering sadness for my Dad's continuing struggle with the War after the War!To all who survive from those till now unheralded battles on Peleliu; Thank you for your honorable service!