The Peleliu operation in Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. A Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) loaded with United States 7th Marines advances towards a beachhead. They unload from the landing craft. The marines on the ground. M-4 tanks parked in the background. One of the tank burns in the background. A radio operator talks over a radio. One of the radio men operates a generator which powers the radio. Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVTs) advance on the beachhead and marines disembark from the vehicles. The marines dressed in full combat gear with weapons advance inland. A marine lying on a stretcher covered with a camouflaged poncho in the foreground.
The Peleliu operation in Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. An M-4 tank advances inland. The wreckage of an aircraft in the foreground. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) advances. A bulldozer clears away rubble. U.S. Marines carry a wounded marine on a stretcher. The wounded marine on the ground. A marine stands up holding blood plasma as another marine inserts a needle in the arm of the wounded. Other marines sit nearby. Smoke rises. Two marines walk around on a beachhead. The marines carry belts of machine gun shells around necks. Dead Japanese soldiers. 5th Marine air strip. The Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) moves past. A transport aircraft on fire on the air strip. Smoke rises.
The Peleliu operation in Peleliu, Palau Islands during World War II. Aerial view: The tanks and men advance across Engesebus Island. Landing boats go across a lagoon. Shell holes due to bombardment. M-4 tanks and amphibious tractors. Men get out of the amphibious tractors and run inland. Fire as a tank moves in the background.
Animated map shows U.S. forces extending control in the Pacific the the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in the Pacific during World War 2. An American soldier sentry near a destroyed Japanese reinforced concrete bunker. Another looks at a destroyed Japanese coastal gun. More American soldiers looking over destroyed Japanese coastal defenses. A destroyed Japanese type 95 HA-GO tank. A U.S. troops look at a destroyed Japanese Mitsubishi G4M (Betty) bombers on a captured airfield. Animated map of New Guinea.showing Allied advance to Hollandia. U.S. aircraft carriers with their aircraft flying overhead. Closeup from behind of a Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft taking off from a carrier. Formations of U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft in flight overhead. Escort aircraft carriers (called "Jeep" carriers by the narrator) are seen with decks full of airplanes. Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft taxiing on a carrier deck. An F6F fighter plane taking off. A formation of Douglas SBD Dauntless airplanes viewed from above, flying over the sea. Gun camera films from U.S. aircraft strafing parked airplanes on Japanese airfields.
Amphibious attack by the U.S. forces on an island in the Pacific during World War II. A U.S. battleship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Naval guns firing at Japanese positions. Landing crafts loaded with soldiers approach the island. Aircraft in flight drop bombs. An armored vehicle drives into a beach. U.S. troops wade inland during combat. Marines ducking behind bushes before an explosion takes place on the beach. Dead Japanese soldiers’ bodies lying on the ground. A firing rocket launcher on USMC M-2-4 1-ton cargo truck. Vehicles driven inland. A soldier fires a gun. Soldiers filing out of grass. They carry ammunition. Flames come out of a Flamethrower. The soldiers sit in a trench. Injured soldiers are treated in the jungle. Medics carry a patient on a stretcher. A jeep is driven away. Tanks move in a line. Soldiers on a battlefield.
The U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4)in flight over Camp Kearny, San Diego, California. she drops mooring cable to crew of about 100 sailors on the ground. Part of the cable breaks, and three sailors are left dangling on the remaining cable. They are pulled up as the Akron rises and two of the sailors fall to their deaths. One sailor (Navy Apprentice Seaman, C.M. Cowart) remains secure on the cable and is reeled into the airship. Captain of the airship, Lieutenant Commander, Charles Emery Rosendahl, gives a public statement following the accident.
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