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Marines of 4th Battalion 11th U.S. Marine Regiment fire M-1 Carbines at Japanese enemy in Peleliu Island, Palau, in World War II.

4th Battalion 11th Regiment Marine riflemen fire M-1 Carbines during combat on Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War 2. Marine fires Browning Automatic Rifle and another fires 30 Caliber Carbine. Wounded U.S. Marine casualty is handed down hill between fellow marines and loaded and carried on stretcher.

Date: 1944, October 4
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022894
U.S. 1st Division Marines combat Japanese forces dug in on Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II.

U.S. 1st Division marines moving forward in the battle of Peleliu Island, during World War 2. Marines are seen moving through Horseshoe Valley, behind a U.S. Army M4 Composite Hull Sherman tank from the 710th Tank Battalion. Others move cautiously past a knocked out truck. Marines are dimly silhouetted as they ascend a ridge. Marines crouching down at the shoreline. Views from above: U.S. Army Sherman tank firing its gun in the valley. Two M4 tanks firing their guns. Marines following an M4 tank. Marines climbing up toward the camera location.Marines reaching the top of the ridge. View down into the valley where marines walk amongst two M4 Sherman tanks as they continue to fire at dug-in Japanese positions in the cliffs. Closeup of two marines firing from side of a hill. Down in the valley, 4 marines carry a casualty on a stretcher.

Date: 1944, October 4
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022895
U.S. 1st Marine Division in mopping-up operations on Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II

U.S. 1st Division marines moving across Peleliu Island during final phases of initial mopping-up operations there in World War 2. They traverse flat terrain with no evidence of hostile fire.

Date: 1944, October 4
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022896
Marines of the U.S. First Division capture high ground and coastal guns on Peleliu Island, Palau, in World War II

U.S. 1st Division marines, in mopping up operations, climb out of a valley onto a ridge containing Japanese fortifications and guns, that overlook the airfield at Peleliu Island, during World War 2. Upon the ridge, a marine poses next to a Japanese 200mm coastal defense gun. Closeup of the controls for the gun. A marine examines another Japanese coastal defense gun.Views of other damaged Japanese artillery and a machine gun. Bodies of several dead Japanese soldiers seen near the artillery pieces.

Date: 1944, October 4
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022898
Marines of U.S. 5th Regiment, 1st Division, are supported by Army 710th Tank Battalion, on Peleliu Island, in World War II

Tanks of the 1st Platoon, A Company of the 710th Tank Battalion (Army) support 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment on Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War 2 in the Pacific. (Slate at TC: 00:20, identifies 3rd Bn, 5th Marines. who occupy positions along a ridge.) One steadies his rifle on a broken tree limb as he fires it. A Sherman tank firing its gun at nearby Japanese bunkers in hillside. A marine fires a Browning automatic rifle from atop the tank, while partially protected by its turret and open hatch. A tank with the name "Honey Suckle Rose" painted on its side moves among Marine infantry. (Note: A Company of the U.S. Army 710th Tank Battalion, along with the 321st Regimental Combat Team, 81st Infantry Division, came from nearby Angaur on September 23rd, landing on Orange Beach, to reinforce the Marines.)

Date: 1944, October 4
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022899
U.S. 1st Division marines find time to clean up and get mail near end of battle of Peleliu Island, Palau, in World War II.

U.S. 1st Division marines find time to bathe and clean up at the end of preliminary mopping up operations in the battle of Peleiu Island, during World War 2. A group of Marines uses water from a captured Japanese well to take much-needed baths. They load captured supplies onto a Japanese cart. Other marines are also seen washing up at the captured site. Two marines look at a small Japanese army truck. Marines gather around for mail call as letters from home are destributed. A marine standing in front of his tent. A group of marines relaxes, as one of them cuts open a coconut. Several of them smoke cigarettes. Two are seen cleaning their rifles.

Date: 1944, October 4
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022900