U.S. 5th Marine Regiment advance on Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Marines advance across Japanese airstrip. Smoke rises up from burning Japanese planes. Tank fires. Tank and Marines move up airstrip. An explosion occurs.
U.S. 5th Marine Regiment in Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Marines advance. A Marine with a machine gun. Dead Japanese soldiers on field. A Marine with rifle advances.
Battle of Angaur in Palau Islands during World War 2. Views from an aircraft flying over the shore lines of Angaur Island. Many U.S. ships offshore. Japanese installations seen inland on Angaur. U.S. landing craft at beach and underway back out to the task force, after completing a landing operation.
Battle of Angaur in Palau Islands during World War II. Aerial views show smoke rising from burning Japanese installations on Angaur. Shoreline of Angaur. Damaged Japanese buildings. U.S. landing crafts around beach. U.S. ships and landing crafts of task force off the coast of Angaur.
Invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Cub plane takes off from flight deck of USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) off the coast of Peleliu. Cub plane in flight. U.S. Navy F4F Wildcat fighters take off from flight deck of Kitkun Bay.
The invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Wounded U.S. marines lying on stretchers on a beach are given first aid. Wounded men are shifted to a Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT). Men loaded on a crane. Bulldozers level a road. Men sit near a Bofors 40 mm gun, an anti-aircraft auto cannon. Men see the bombardment.