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United States Marine Corps with the help of cranes unload Landing Craft Vehicles at Peleliu Island, Palau.

United States Marine Corps speak over phone at Peleliu Island, Palau. Cranes unload LCV (Landing Craft Vehicles) from Freight cars. Number of drums on a freight car.

Date: 1944, September 18
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022930
United States Marine Corps body disposal Unit, fingerprints and buries dead Marines at Peleliu Island, Palau.

Covered bodies of dead Marines on litter at Peleliu Island, Palau. United States Marine Corps body disposal Unit, fingerprints and buries dead Marines.

Date: 1944, September 18
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022931
United States Marine Corps inside bunkers at Japanese airfield in Peleliu Island, Palau.

View of Japanese Airfield at Peleliu Island, Palau. United States Marine Corps inside bunkers. Dead Japanese soldiers on ground.

Date: 1944, September 18
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022932
United States Marine Corps construct Pontoon ramp in Peleliu Island, Palau.

United States Marine Corps construct Pontoon ramp in Peleliu Island, Palau. Board of 'Evacuation Station'. Marines stand in line to get chow.

Date: 1944, September 18
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022933
U.S. Naval task force in action at Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II

Film opens showing an American Portland class heavy cruiser underway moving astern the camera ship off Peleliu Island, Palau,during World War 2. Other warships are seen low on the horizon. At TC:00:37-00:57, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) is seen. Glimpses of the camera ship show a triple gun turret astern and a Curtis SOC Seagull biwing floatplane carried aboard. (This is likely a Portland class heavy cruiser.) The USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) appears astern at TC:01:08. At TC:01:53, a closeup of the Battleship USS Maryland (BB-46) is seen briefly behind the camera ship. Suddenly, a Fletcher class destroyer cuts across the stern of the camera ship. After that, the USS Maryland is seen again close astern. Explosions in the water on the horizon. Scene shifts to camera ship gun firing to port while underway. View of gun turrets. A Fletcher class destroyer in camouflage paint passes nearby. Closeup of a flush deck destroyer escort close to the shoreline. View of another flush deck destroyer escort with exploding shells raising plumes of water around it. More shells exploding in the water including one astern her that raises a very high plume of water. More shells exploding around the destroyer escort. Smoke rising from ashore from U.S. naval bombardment. Heavy black smoke rising in one spot. Flush deck destroyer escort moving from right to left across the scene. Heavy smoke and fires burning ashore from bombardment.

Date: 1944, September 13
Duration: 5 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022937
USS Noa Destroyer sinks in sea around Peleliu Island, Palau.

USS Noa Destroyer sinks in sea around Peleliu Island, Palau. Aircrafts fly overhead in formation. Survivors of USS Noa Destroyer aboard a small boat. They get aboard on deck of USS Honolulu.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022938