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Angaur Island, Palau Islands 1944-09-27 (2 others)

Overview:

Anguar Island had been declared secure on 20 September. However, the Japanese still held out in the northwestern part of the island around Romauldo Hill. The hill had been fortified as a redoubt using interconnected caves and pillboxes. To attack the redoubt, the 322nd Regimental Combat team from the 81st “Wildcat” Infantry Division had to attack across an open-pit, phosphate mine called the “Angaur Bowl”. The attacks began on 20 September and the Wildcats quickly established a tactical pattern attacking into the difficult terrain and destroying the mutually-supporting Japanese fortifications. On September 27 the Americans were able to get tanks into the bowl along a new road bulldozed the previous day.

Defender: Japanese (1st Battalion, 59th Infantry Regiment, 14th Infantry Division)  

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