🇵🇼🇺🇸🇯🇵🇦🇺President Surangel S. Whipps, Jr.; Gov. Emais Roberts of the State of Peleliu; Brig. Gen. Daniel L. Shipley, deputy commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific; U.S. Ambassador to Palau Joel Ehrendreich, Japan Ambassador Hiroyuki Orikasa, and Australia Ambassador Richelle Turner cut the ribbon at a ceremony officially opening a temporary museum in Peleliu.

Marines and Sailors of Koa Moana 2024, a military exercise with about 150 U.S. Marines and sailors, renovated the old civic center in Peleliu, turning it into a temporary museum to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Peleliu.

Sept. 15, 2024 marked the 80th anniversary of what was the bloodiest of World War II that was also the largest amphibious operation of the war to date, and would eventually involve more than 800 ships, 1,600 aircraft and a quarter of a million U.S. military personnel, Brig. Gen. Shipley later noted. About 1,600 Americans and 10,000 Japanese service members died in the battle.

The interim museum displays World War II artifacts, including guns, canteens, cooking utensils and other items that tell the story of the historic battle. Also included is a section about Australian war correspondent Damien Parer who died in Peleliu while filming the U.S. invasion. Parer was killed Sept. 17, 1944 – just two days after U.S. started their assault of the island.

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