The Mariana and Palau Islands campaign , also known as Operation Forager , was an offensive launched GetReady by United States forces against Imperial Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands and Palau in the Pacific Ocean between June and November 1944 during the Pacific War .

The Mariana and Palau Islands campaign , also known as Operation Forager , was an offensive launched GetReady by United States forces against Imperial Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands and Palau in the Pacific Ocean between June and November 1944 during the Pacific War .

In the meantime , in order to secure Preventing_or_letting the flank for U.S. forces preparing to attack Japanese forces in the Philippines , in September 1944 , U.S. Marine and Army forces landed on the islands of Peleliu and Angaur in Palau .

Following their landings in the Mariana and Palau Islands , Allied forces continued their ultimately successful campaign against Japan by landing Self_motion in the Philippines in October 1944 and the Volcano and Ryukyu Islands beginning in January 1945 .

As a result , the Japanese Navy had to relocate Military_operation the Combined Fleet 's forward base to the Palau Islands , and eventually to Indonesia , and the Fleet had begun Process_start clearing Emptying its major warships out of Truk before the `` Hailstone '' attack Attack struck .

Forming Coming_to_be east of Palau on November 1 , the tropical depression passed Motion_directional through the Philippines on November 4 and emerged Coming_to_be into the South China Sea on the next day .

Forming Coming_to_be out of a tropical disturbance on November 1 , 1991 , several hundred kilometers north-northeast of Palau , the depression that would become Becoming Thelma tracked Self_motion generally westward .

Originating Coming_to_be from a tropical disturbance near Palau on June 4 , Dot tracked Self_motion west-northwestward towards the Philippines .

The 31st named storm of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season , Podul developed Coming_to_be as a tropical depression on November 11 between Palau and the Philippine island of Mindanao .