When you arrive at Peleliu Island a tiny island that belongs to Palau in the south pacific ocean, will it seem like just arrived at one of the most laid-back places you have ever been to once you get here, and it will feel like you got the whole Island for yourself.

But Peleliu has a dark secret if you look closer, it was home to one of the bloodiest battles in WW2, and the scars and the US and Japanese war relics are scattered all over the tiny Island.

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A knocked over American tank,

The hole in the tank where it got hit.

In Memory of the dead American Soliders

There’s old airplane propellers all over

And old airplane enganies

Inside one of the Japanese caves, relics still laying around

old bombs still around

Nature is taking over, a Japanese Zero fighter

Entrance to cave, the Kunio Nakagawa cave

Japanese 200mm coastal defence gun still bristles from a cave.

Japanese 200mm coastal defence gun still bristles from a cave.

two old rusty American tanks parked up, Both are LVTs – Landing Vehicle Tractors – that were used to carry US Marines from ship to shore when the US invasion forces landed on Pelilue, One of them have a 75mm gun. There are a few grenades laying around here.

American LTV

Japanese Hangar

inside the Japanese base

inside the Japanese base

Japense tank

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