United States Marines on Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II. Marines fire flamethrowers at a pillbox. Smoke rises from the area. A Marine kills a burnt Japanese soldiers. Dead Japanese soldiers on ground. A hand grenade being thrown near an airstrip as smoke rises.
United States Marines on Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II. A sign on the beach reads 'Shore Party C-P Orange'. Marines load crates onto LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) on the beach. Marines carry a wounded on a stretcher and place him onto a LVT. Marines carry a string wire. LVTs underway at sea with the Angura coast in the background. Smoke rises from the coast. An aircraft in flight. LVTs underway as columns of smoke rise from Angura island in the background.
United States Marines on Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II. Marines on the beach. LVTs (Landing Vehicle Tracked) DUKWs (amphibious truck) and bulldozers on the beach. Marines aboard a LVT. Marines milling about on the beach. Two LVTs approach the beach. An LVT moves up the beach.
United States Marines on Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II. Marines on a beach. Japanese mines on a beach. Marines milling about on the beach. Prone Marines fire rifles at a Japanese sniper on the beach.
1st Tank Battalion of the United States Marine Corps arrives at Peleliu Island, Palau during World War 2. Opening scene shows USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) with her docking well open, as viewed from stern of a landing craft, moving away from her. A landing craft infantry gunboat, LCI(G) is also seen. Scene shifts to U.S. Marines on deck of a ship, relaxing and tossing an object amongst themselves,. View from beach, where Marines are hunkered down next to a landing vehicle tracked (LVT) as an M4 Sherman tank approaches with fording stacks installed. The tank turns around and heads away from the beach. View, again from the beach as several more Shermans, also equipped for deep wading (Stack Fording Kit MT-S, installed) approach the beach. One tank, onshore, starts backing towards the water as a DUKW amphibious vehicle, hit by Japanese gun fire, is seen burning in the water, just short of the beach.
1st Tank Battalion of the United States Marine Corps arrives at Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II. Marines rest on the Island. Group of Marines move forward in the jungle. Marine fires Bazooka rocket launcher. Tanks fire flamethrowers. Burning trees in the jungle.