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Interior of the Combat Information Center (CIC) aboard USS Mount McKinley, near Peleliu, Palau, during World War 2
Group of United States Navy sailors seated inside the Combat Information Center (CIC) aboard the USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7) during World War 2, during operations nears Peleliu, Palau in the Pacific. U.S. Navy sailors wearing headphones type dispatches on typewriters. They are lined up on either side of the Operations Room. Officers and sailors in the center of the room at a table process paperwork. Two sailors plot information on a radar plotting board.
U.S. Naval task force in action at Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II
Film opens showing an American Portland class heavy cruiser underway moving astern the camera ship off Peleliu Island, Palau,during World War 2. Other warships are seen low on the horizon. At TC:00:37-00:57, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) is seen. Glimpses of the camera ship show a triple gun turret astern and a Curtis SOC Seagull biwing floatplane carried aboard. (This is likely a Portland class heavy cruiser.) The USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) appears astern at TC:01:08. At TC:01:53, a closeup of the Battleship USS Maryland (BB-46) is seen briefly behind the camera ship. Suddenly, a Fletcher class destroyer cuts across the stern of the camera ship. After that, the USS Maryland is seen again close astern. Explosions in the water on the horizon. Scene shifts to camera ship gun firing to port while underway. View of gun turrets. A Fletcher class destroyer in camouflage paint passes nearby. Closeup of a flush deck destroyer escort close to the shoreline. View of another flush deck destroyer escort with exploding shells raising plumes of water around it. More shells exploding in the water including one astern her that raises a very high plume of water. More shells exploding around the destroyer escort. Smoke rising from ashore from U.S. naval bombardment. Heavy black smoke rising in one spot. Flush deck destroyer escort moving from right to left across the scene. Heavy smoke and fires burning ashore from bombardment.
U.S. Marines of 1st Division suffer casualties during battle for Peleliu Island in World War 2
U.S. Marines of the First Division, engage fortified Japanese defenders on on Peleliu Island,in World War II. U.S. Marine using a flame thrower to flush Japanese defenders out of underground bunker. Riflemen stand ready and fire, hitting one trying to escape. A marine firing a Pack Howitzer. Marines running across the beach, when one is hit by Japanese gunfire and falls. Another Marine bending over him. Explosion with white smoke next to two Marines. Three Marines carrying one wounded on a litter. Many dead marines lie covered on a beach and others fingerprint them. Marines running with a wounded comrade on a stretcher. Two help another walk and one carries a wonded buddy over his shoulder. Marines carry wounded on stretchers to landing craft for evacuation to the hospital ship, USS Samaritan (AH-10) offshore. View of Higgins boats from the USS Leedstown (APA-56) lined up alongside the ship bringing casualties from shore. View on deck of the Samaritan as litters are hoisted up and received by the staff. Surgeons at work in the hospital ship operating theater.
Scenes from the Battle of San Pietro, Italy, during World War II
Elements of the U.S. 36th Infantry Division engaging in the Battle of San Pietro, during World War 2. Opening scene shows U.S. infantrymen of the 141st Infantry Regiment synchronizing their watches on H-Hour, D-Day, the 15th of December, 1943. Next they move forward 400 yards from their positions and are immediately pinned down by heavy artillery fire from German defenders. Soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 143rd Infantry Regiment advance 100 yards and hunker down at barbed wire barrier close to German defense line. They also come under heavy German artillery fire. American Sherman tanks enter the Town of San Pietro to find and destroy the German artillery interfering with the American advances. Views of U.S. tanks on the move. Narrator states that 16 tanks were dispatched along the road to San Pietro. Three reached the outskirts. German gunfire destroys two of these. Smoke rising from a struck tank. Views of pieces of destroyed tanks. Destroyed and abandoned American tanks. American infantrymen carrying a wounded on a litter past a knocked out Sherman tank. View of one (of four) tanks returning to the Regimental Bivouac area. Parachute flares illuminate the battlefield at night, where small American units succeed in penetrating German defenses, but are forced to move back again due to flanking German artillery and machine gun fire. Closeups of several wounded American infantry being moved on stretchers.
Inhabitants of San Pietro Infine, Italy, attempt to begin life anew, after U.S. Forces capture the village from German Forces, during World War II
Aftermath of the Battle of St. Pietro Infine, Italy, after it was taken by soldiers of the U.S. Army 36th Division, 143rd Infantry Regiment and troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, during World War 2. Several U.S. soldiers of the 143rd Infantry Regiment, scramble down a mountainside over rubble from destroyed buildings in San Pietro Infine, Italy, following the battle there during December 1943. (These scenes were photographed later, in 1944.) Next, more local people are seen running from a mountain cave, where they had taken refuge during the battle of San Pietro. Old people, women, and children make their way down the rubble strewn hillside and onto a remnant of road surrounded by destroyed buildings. Italian women carry their belongings balanced on their heads as they walk towards the remains of their dwellings. A man leads two cattle. One woman carries a new coffin balanced on her head. An 82nd Airborne trooper warns local people about the danger of mines and booby traps left behind by retreating German soldiers. A soldier removes a booby trap in a doorway. Women trying to clean up and settle in the ruins of their homes. As one woman sweeps debris, an huge explosion occurs, bringing down large portions of a building. U.S. Soldiers dig through debris, with shovels. An MP and infantryman stand with several Italian men as one is grief stricken while they retrieve the body of a loved one from the rubble. A woman weeps. Women nurse and comfort their babies. Small children are seen happily emerging from a cave. A mother admonishes her boy. Women and children are relieved and smiling. Several children scamper down a hill. Others are seen walking about and posing shyly for the camera. Local men clearing rubble and women washing clothes in an outdoor stream as they try to reestablish some normalcy in their lives. A shoemaker resuming business at a small bench outdoors. Men unloading sacks of flour from a truck. People purchasing flour being weighed in an outdoor market. Farmers plowing fields with oxen. A church procession, led by a youth carrying a Christian banner, moves from a bombed out church, between mounds of rubble, . Statue of a Saint at the church.
Medics attend to wounded U.S. soldiers on shore during invasion of Normandy, France in World War II.
Wounded United States soldiers on shore lying on stretchers in Normandy, France, during World War 2. Team of Medics attend to them. Harbor crowded with Landing craft unloading Army trucks, DUKWs (amphibious vehicles), Sherman tanks, M4 high speed tractors with AA equipment, and other military vehicles. Several French civilians walking along with United States army soldiers up sand road from beachhead. U.S. Infantrymen wade from ship towards beach.
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