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1st Tank Battalion of the U.S. Marine Corps encounters fierce Japanese resistance during landing at Peleliu, Island, Palau, in World War II
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.
U.S. Marine Corps of the 1st Tank Battalion fire flamethrowers at enemy on Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II.
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.
U.S. Army tanks and Marine heavy artillery firing at Horseshoe Valley in Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II.
U.S. Army tanks of the 1st. Platoon, A Company, 710th Tank Battalion, in action with Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, at Horseshoe Valley in Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II. The area is a virtual no man's land. Tanks fire flamethrowers at Japanese positions. Marine infantry rushes to occupy a trench in the valley. Marines set up and fire a 155mm gun at fortified Japanese positions in the hills and cliffs.
81st Infantry Division troops embark for Peleliu Island while others clear brush for landing strip during Battle of Angaur (WW2)
United States 321st Regiment, 81st Infantry Division board LSTs for Peleliu Island during the Battle of Angaur in World War II. A ship leaves the port while soldiers wait for another ship. Infantry troops clear the jungle while searching for Japanese snipers on Angaur Island. A soldier hacks away tree branches. 81st Infantry Division “Wildcats” troops clear away leaves, branches, and vegetation. Bulldozers clearing bushes, debris, and soil. A road roller with spikes flattens ground. A soldier spins the propeller of a Piper L-4 Grasshopper scout plane to start it. The plane taxiing and taking off from the newly built airfield.
11th Marine Aircraft group drop bombs on Peleliu Island, Palau.
F4U Corsairs or U.S. Marine Aircraft Group 11, bombard Japanese positions on Prostitute Ridge, Peleliu, Palau, during World War 2. They fly a number of sorties, dropping general purpose bombs on fortified Japanese positions, very close to U.S. Marine positions. Marine pilots fly low and slow, with landing gear extended to assure accuracy in their bombing.
F4Us of Marine Aircraft group 11 use skip-bombing against Japanese dug in on Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II.
F4U Corsairs of U.S. Marine Aircraft Group 11, use skip bombing to strike Japanese in fortified caves on Peleliu, during World War 2. They are seen striking targets on Prostitute Ridge. Meanwhile, Marines in Horseshoe Valley hurry as they carry a wounded Marine on a stretcher past some U.S. Army M4 Sherman tanks. Another view of Corsair making low slow bomb run. Scene shifts to a Corsair landing on the Peleliu airfield, while construction vehicles are still working to repair it. Scenes of the airfield, with mixture of tents, some still-standing buildings, and men working on the sand runways.