Survivors of USS Indianapolis in Peleliu, Palau towards the end of World War II. Survivors on stretchers are lowered from hospital ship USS Tranquillity (AH-14) to the deck of an LCT (Landing Craft Tank). (Note, this hospital ship is sometimes misspelled as USS Tranquility).
Survivors of USS Indianapolis in Peleliu, Palau towards the end of World War II. Hospital ship USS Tranquillity (AH-14) docked (sometimes misspelled as USS Tranquility). Boats in davits on a boat deck. A Red Cross flag flies from a yardarm. Stretcher cases being hoisted aboard.
US Navy survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) sinking in Peleliu, Palau towards the end of World War II. Entrance to a hospital ward at a naval base hospital. Ambulatory sailor patients exit from a building and climb into a waiting truck. Stretcher patients carried from the hospital ward and placed in waiting ambulances.
Survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) sinking, seen in Peleliu, Palau towards the end of World War II. Patients are carried on stretchers and loaded aboard an LCT (Landing Craft Tank). U.S. soldiers aboard a landing craft alongside the LCT.
Number of ships and Landing Crafts around Peleliu Island, Palalu. Smoke columns rise from the Island. Shells explode on Peleliu Island.
Smoke rises from Peleliu Island, Palau during World War 2. View from hunkered down position in landing craft during assault on Japanese held Peleliu island. U.S. Marines move cautiously ashore through barbed wire and other obstacles. Landing craft is struck by enemy gunfire and is engulfed by flames and smoke. Marines lie low and advance under fire in the sand. U.S. Navy Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber seen flying over the beachhead. Marine handles belt of machine gun bullets.
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