United States Army 77th Infantry Division in Guam, Japan during the Guam Operations of World War II. A wounded Japanese woman speaks to a U.S. soldier. A soldier wearing a helmet stands at an intersection directing the traffic. A pole in the background with directional signs pointing towards Piti Navy Yard and Agana. Soldiers on an army jeep.
U.S. 1st Marine division riflemen advance cautiously behind Sherman M4 tanks on a trail through heavy jungle in Talasea, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, during World War 2. Tank crews fire their guns point blank at Japanese positions. Marine in tank turret fires machine gun. Tanks rake side of trail with gunfire as they lead riflemen along the trail. They pass a metal building in Japanese installation.
Marines of U.S. 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, advance toward Talasea, New Britain in World War 2. Marines load and fire 75mm Howitzer. A tank stuck on a dirt road. The Marines dig around the tank's tread. The Marines give first aid to a wounded man. Two Marines seated with bandaged faces and legs. Dead Japanese soldiers on the ground. A shrine in the jungle.
U.S. M3 Stuart Light tank speeds into view and circles around. View from foxhole, underneath, as the tank drives over it. Tank crew quickly boards and moves out, leaving a trail of dust behind. The tank maneuvers on sandy hilltop, overlooking a German town below. The crew poses in combat stations.
1st Tank Battalion of the United States Marine Corps arrives at Peleliu Island, Palau during World War 2. Opening scene shows USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) with her docking well open, as viewed from stern of a landing craft, moving away from her. A landing craft infantry gunboat, LCI(G) is also seen. Scene shifts to U.S. Marines on deck of a ship, relaxing and tossing an object amongst themselves,. View from beach, where Marines are hunkered down next to a landing vehicle tracked (LVT) as an M4 Sherman tank approaches with fording stacks installed. The tank turns around and heads away from the beach. View, again from the beach as several more Shermans, also equipped for deep wading (Stack Fording Kit MT-S, installed) approach the beach. One tank, onshore, starts backing towards the water as a DUKW amphibious vehicle, hit by Japanese gun fire, is seen burning in the water, just short of the beach.
1st. Platoon, A Company, 710th Tank Battalion of the United States Army supporting U.S. Marines of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, First Marine Division, during a sortie at Horseshoe Valley, Peleliu Island, Palau, in World War II. M4 Sherman tanks are seen moving with Marine infantrymen along a path in the area. Three tanks cluster together and fire at Japanese positions in ridges and cliffs. Smoke rises from striking shells. One Sherman tank is seen backing up past an incinerated tank in the foreground. It turns around and proceeds back up the hill.
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