Peleliu: WWII’s Most Well-Preserved Battlefield on SBS and SBS on Demand – Narrated by actor Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, Bloodline and Catch-22 on SBS On Demand), Peleliu: WWII’s Most Well-Preserved Battlefield explores the impact that World War II had on a small island in the Palau archipelago in Micronesia.
The remote island of Peleliu is considered the most well-preserved battlefield in the world — a living testament to one of the U.S. Marines’ most bitter and eye-opening fights in World War II. The military engagement was supposed to last three days, but, instead, it took 72 days of hard fighting to eliminate the Japanese from 500 caves on the island.
Because it is illegal to remove any relic from the island, the battlefield remains almost as it was when the fight here ended in 1944.
Peleliu: WWII’s Most Well-Preserved Battlefield on SBS and SBS on Demand – Premiere / Sunday 22 February at 5.25pm (1 Part)
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