05.05.2010, 10:42
Sorry if I may be blunt here, but I was putting some order into my QMBP missions, and realized this excellent looking painted map from redko (many thanks and congrats!) is based on a quite poor version of Peleliu: I also have another Palau installed (not the Online: sorry I cannot trace the creator! Can someone clear my doubts, please?) with the airport already installed, and all the villages detailed; the point is that this redko map base besides the airport missing, has a very poor representation of all the features that are present on the island: Bloody Nose Ridge, the Horseshoe, the Five Sisters etc. I know I'm fussy here, but I'm re-reading the excellent book by Sledge 'With The Old Breed' and I really wanted all the possible features of this important battlefield to be depicted as more closely as possible, and I really would like to see a better model for Peleliu. From that book I understood that the Airport was already finished as depicted in the other Palau map, and that soon after it was conquered by the Marines the Corsairs were already taking off from that strip to bombard the enemy on the ridges just a little more than a mile away...
Note there is also a second airstrip on Ngesebus, and the two roads, East and West...
Note there is also a second airstrip on Ngesebus, and the two roads, East and West...