Pictures of the Battle of Angaur.

On September 17, 1944 (about 72 years ago) the US Army gave me a boat ride to the beach on Angaur Island. Angaur is next to Peleliu in the Palau Archipelago. The pictures below are actual pictures of the action. I found the pictures in a documentary film on YouTube. I am sure that I am in one of the pictures.

Long ride in a troop ship from Hawaii to Angaur.

There is Angaur.

Battleships and planes bombard the island.

Landing crafts full of troops form circles.

The boats peel off to form waves. I must have been in one of those boats.

The trees were almost all torn up by the bombardment.

I was not dressed like this. If the enemy could have seen my face they would have surrendered sooner.