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11th Marine Aircraft group drop bombs on Peleliu Island, Palau.

F4U Corsairs or U.S. Marine Aircraft Group 11, bombard Japanese positions on Prostitute Ridge, Peleliu, Palau, during World War 2. They fly a number of sorties, dropping general purpose bombs on fortified Japanese positions, very close to U.S. Marine positions. Marine pilots fly low and slow, with landing gear extended to assure accuracy in their bombing.

Date: 1944, October 8
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022878
F4Us of Marine Aircraft group 11 use skip-bombing against Japanese dug in on Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II.

F4U Corsairs of U.S. Marine Aircraft Group 11, use skip bombing to strike Japanese in fortified caves on Peleliu, during World War 2. They are seen striking targets on Prostitute Ridge. Meanwhile, Marines in Horseshoe Valley hurry as they carry a wounded Marine on a stretcher past some U.S. Army M4 Sherman tanks. Another view of Corsair making low slow bomb run. Scene shifts to a Corsair landing on the Peleliu airfield, while construction vehicles are still working to repair it. Scenes of the airfield, with mixture of tents, some still-standing buildings, and men working on the sand runways.

Date: 1944, October 8
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022879
Aftermath of combat on Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II.

U.S. First Division Marines, standing near a chainlink fence, display a large battle-scarred American flag, on Peleliu, during World War 2. Others display a large, captured (relatively unscathed) Japanese rising sun Naval ensign. Camera pans slowly over complete destruction left in wake of the combat on Peleliu.

Date: 1944, October 7
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022882
Japanese Prisoners of War at Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II

Wounded Japanese prisoners of war on litters and ambulatory and uninjured POWs at a makeshift barbed wire enclosure on Paleliu, during World War II. (Some of these may have been Korean and Okinawan laborers.) Marines interrogate one of the prisoners. The ranking POW takes charge of the prisoners. He orders them into formation.

Date: 1944, October 4
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022892
U.S. Marines of 1st Division attempt to get Japanese soldiers to surrender on Peleliu Island, Palau, in World War II.

U.S. 1st Division marines during final phases of initial mopping-up operations on Peleliu in World War 2. They have several Japanese prisoners of war and are trying to get others to surrender. A marine using a pair of binoculars to locate Japanese hideout. Other marines crawl through underbrush toward area where Japanese soldiers are holding out. One throws a hand grenade.

Date: 1944, October 4
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022897
U.S. 1st Marine Division in battle of Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II

Slate identifies location as Peleleiu (misspelled) and unit as 1st Tank Battalion. Battle of Peleliu in World War 2. After taking the airfield, Marines of the U.S. 1st Marine Division examine dead Japanese next to what appears to be a demolished Japanese light tank (turret is missing completely). Next scene shows destroyed Japanese light tank, Type 95 Ha-Go. View from U.S. tank moving towards the airfield, where several Marine 1st Battalion M4A2 Tanks are seen. The area is strewn with wreckage and destroyed buildings. A combat photographer squats in the sand next to two Marines and a tank, as he removes his movie camera from a bag, and examines it.

Date: 1944, September 16
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022904