1st Marine Tank Battalion with U.S. 1st Division marines in the battle of Peleiu Island, during World War 2. A 1st Battalion M4A2 tank fitted with an M1A1 Dozer Kit, moves along the sand near marine infantrymen on the beachhead. Marines move forward to take cover near the tank. Brief partial glimpse of a wounded marine stumbling along the shore toward a beached Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT). Group of marines in the sand, partially sheltered by an LVT. Camera pans left over beach, showing marines in battle gear along with some stacked rifles and boxes and equipment. View toward the water shows a burning LVT and several damaged vehicles. A bulldozer is operating on the shore, as well as a truck and a small mobile crane holding an artillery piece. Marines work around LVTs
Invasion of Peleliu Island by United States Marine Corps during World War II. Troops advance inland from beach. Army trucks, jeeps and LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked ) Tanks move inland. Smoke rises with damaged tree in foreground. Ships at bay with Marine seated in water on the beach.
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.
Harbor activity Invasion Port in Southampton, England. Liberty ships and Landing Crafts on Harbor. United States soldiers unload supplies from landing crafts on beach. Bulldozer pulls DUKW (Amphibious truck)from shore. Overturned jeep bogged down in mud. Soldiers get into water from Landing Crafts and advance towards the beach. (World War II period).
Map showing Crimea and surroundings, including Dnieper, Donez, and Don Rivers, and cities of Kiev, Kertch (aka Kerch), Novorossiysk, Stalino (aka Donetsk), and Sevastopol. German soldiers looking from a high point of land overlooking narrow body of water in vicinity of the Isthmus of Perekop, in World War 2. Romanian troops in summer uniforms with short pants, enter motor boats and navigate narrow waterways lined with tall grasses and shrubs. A shell or bomb explodes throwing water high in the air. The Romanian troops beach their boats and rush ashore. Soviet shellfire strikes a beached boat which explodes in smoke. The Romanians set up a machine gun and fire it with one man pulling the belt ammunition through as another feeds it. More scenes of motorboats speeding through the narrow waterways. Soldiers with boats at a small dock.
Explosions at the shore line from shelling by 5-inch guns of the USS Mansfield (DD-728) during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. Smoke arises from shore. White phosphorus shells explode at the beach. Mountains in background .. Various views of shells striking beach area. Brief view from the bridge, of Mansfield's two forward twin 5-inch turrets turned to port and firing rounds. Numerous explosions along the shore.
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