U.S. Marine Corps Communication activities at Peleliu, Palau Islands. Marine Regiment Command Post (CP) moving in, damaged buildings all around. Marines with dogs standing beside damaged building. TBX radio set at Regiment C.P. Damaged building in the background. Marines sitting in dugout, operating TBX radio, shelter half put up over dugout. Operator of TBX radio set sending message inside dugout. TBX radio network set up at Regiment HQ. Operator of TBX radio set with earphones. A message is written and delivered to a runner.
U.S. Marine Corps Communication activities at Peleliu, Palau Islands. Interior of 5th Marine Regiment Command Post (CP). Marine works on situation map. Another Marine at desk working on overlay. Views of the map. Marines working on wires loading to switch board attaching them to frame on doorway. Marines in building. Marine writing message, another Marine operates switchboard. Views of switchboard.
U.S. Marine Corps Communication activities at Peleliu, Palau Islands. Forward observation party, for 75mm pack How, U.S. 5th Marines 2nd Battalion, with binoculars, other men sitting in jungle. Marine observer watches fire through binoculars. Large body of water in background. Target area observer in the foreground silhouetted against sky. Operator of BC-1306 radio set sending message using hand crank generator. Shell bursts, smoke rising skyward. Shell burst in water. (World War II period).
United States 1st Marine Division troops relax at Peleliu Island, Palau after the end of World War II. One of the Marine holds wooden board with Japanese slogan on it. Marines try to snatch liquor bottle from each other. They grab for cigarette packets. 1st Marine Division troops laugh and drink from bottles.
United States 1st Marine Division troops relax at Peleliu Island, Palau. Marines take out Japanese liquor bottles from crate. Marines load and fire 155mm Howitzer. They carry ammunition to Howitzer. (World War II period).
United States 1st Marine Division troops advance towards Japanese enemy forces at Peleliu Island, Palau in World War II. View of Japanese aircraft on field. Marines hold Japanese soldiers at gunpoint. War wrecked rooftops of large huts. Damaged Japanese aircraft.