United States aircraft dives and strafes over Peleliu Island, Palau. Smoke rises from far background. 5th Marines Division troops advance towards Japanese airfield. Officer interrogates Japanese prisoner. (World War II period).
United States aircraft dives and strafes over Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II. Smoke rises from far background. 5th Marines Division troops on LVT ( Landing Vehicle Tracked ) tanks move on Japanese airfield. Flares descend from sky at night.
Mutilated bodies of dead Japanese in trench at Peleliu Island, Palau. Piece of cloth with Japanese slogan over one of the dead Japanese. United States 5th Marine Division troops fire at Japanese enemy. (World War II period).
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.
Operation of heavy floating crane as logs are moved into position for construction of floating dock in France. Canadian and United States soldiers work on the aid operation. (World War II period).
Floating crane lowers truck onto ship at Harbor in France. United States soldiers on deck of ship. (World War II period).
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