United States Army Air Forces 42nd Bomb Squadron in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Airmen of 11th bombardment group, 7th Air Force. Men work near an army camp. A man washes socks. A truck moves past a tent. Other men work and cut the tops out of gasoline barrels with axes.
United States Army Air Forces 42nd Bomb Squadron in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Airmen of 11th bombardment group, 7th Air Force. Men at work near an army camp. They construct a shower and a water tank. Trees in the area. A man welds.
United States Marine Corps in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Marines load and fire 155 mm Howitzers at Japanese enemy. An officer points out on a map and discusses the plan of action. The Marines walk in a forest area.
United States Marine Corps in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Marines move past burning tanks in the jungle. A charred hand of a dead soldier stick out of burned tank. Marines with M4A3 Sherman tanks advance on a road. The tanks fire at Japanese enemy positions. Fire and explosion in the bushes. An officer smokes a cigarette. The Marines advance uphill on Mount Santa Rosa. Some Marines help their comrades climb up the hill.
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. 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.
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