On Peleliu Island, U.S. and Japanese troops landed on Orange Beach on September 15, 1944, and engaged in a white battle. The U.S. military hurried to identify the bodies of American soldiers killed by the Japanese before giving them a temporary burial.

　　On Peleliu Island, U.S. and Japanese troops landed on Orange Beach on September 15, 1944, and engaged in white combat. The U.S. forces hurried to identify the bodies of American soldiers killed by the Japanese before giving them a temporary burial. Japanese troops in coastal positions challenged the Americans to a bayonet battle. The entire coastal area became a killing field as the bodies of both the American and Japanese troops, friend and foe alike, were piled on top of each other. The American camouflage uniforms clearly had the greater number of bodies. The U.S. forces were defeated in the first landing and pulled back to sea.

　In the Pacific War, at 5:00 a.m. on September 15, 1944, the sea overlooking Peleliu Island was filled with American warships large and small as far as the eye could see. Soon after, battleships and heavy cruisers opened their guns and began firing on the Japanese forces on Peleliu Island. At the same time, American forces simultaneously began landing operations on Peleliu Island. The landing site of the U.S. forces was on the southern coast, which the Japanese called Nishihama.

　The Japanese forces established six frontline positions on Nishihama, where the Americans had landed. The American forces surged into Nishihama, about 13 kilometers from the coastline, and from some 50 transport ships, about 20 large boats filled with soldiers were sent one after another to the coastline under the cover of artillery shells. About 300 landing craft from the large boat group approached the raised coral reef at about 7:30 am. They switched from boats to amphibious vehicles and rushed onto the beach. The Japanese launched a simultaneous counterattack, and at about 8:30 a.m., a portion of the American forces finally drifted onto the beach from near the Ishimatsu position to the Ayame position, but the first landing failed, and they pulled back to the sea.　

　Next, the U.S. forces forced their way through the gap bypassing the western and southern districts. The Americans landed and secured a bridgehead. The Japanese formed a cut-and-dry death squadron and counterattacked with tank units. Japanese light tanks were disintegrated one after another as American anti-tank and bazooka guns opened fire. The Japanese forces on Peleliu Island avoided a banzai assault, and took a one-shot, one-kill approach to the American forces. The battle of Orange Beach lasted about a week, after which the Japanese forces were in cave positions during the day and engaged in guerrilla warfare every day at night. The number of Japanese soldiers gradually decreased and losses were heavy, but the losses to the American forces were also heavy. American reinforcements arrived one after another. The Japanese did not receive a single soldier or a single bullet. The Japanese forces were forced to withdraw from their front line positions and retreated to caves in the mountainous areas to hide.

　The Japanese holed up in cave positions carved into the rising coral reef mountains and in solid concrete bunkers. In the palm forests along the western coastline, Japanese and American troops faced each other and killed each other. The Japanese troops jumped out of the hole at the signal of "Shove it in! the Japanese troops jumped out of the holes at the signal. The first line of the American troops were mostly black soldiers, and many blacks were killed. The Japanese soldiers did not fire bullets at the U.S. soldiers, who were still breathing and pointing their guns at them, but hit them with their gunstocks. Wounded, the American soldiers hid behind palm trees, and the Japanese soldiers came one after the other, and on the beach, white soldiers fought with each other and with the enemy.