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 Tank Battalion of the United States Marine Corps arrives at Peleliu Island, Palau during World War II. Marines rest on the Island. Group of Marines move forward in the jungle. Marine fires Bazooka rocket launcher. Tanks fire flamethrowers. Burning trees in the jungle.
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.
United States Marines in combat on Iwo Jima Island, in the Pacific, during World War II. A 5th Marine Division tank burns after being hit by Japanese artillery fire. Column of U.S. M4 Sherman tanks advances on battlefield. One of them is equipped with a bulldozer blade. Shells from Japanese 77mm field artillery explode around the tanks.
United States Marines Corps of the 3rd Marine Division invade Iwo Jima island, Japan during World War II. Wounded Marines being evacuated from the island. U.S. Army Air Forces P-51 Mustang aircraft lands on a dirt runway. Other aircraft land and take off. One of the P-51 Mustangs crashes during landing. Number of P-51's parked on an airfield.
United States Marines of the 3rd Marine Division on Iwo Jima Island during World War 2. 3rd Marine Division Sherman tanks firing point blank at Japanese positions. Marine riflemen taking cover below crest of hill, behind the tanks. One Marine fires a grenade with his rifle. A Marine fires his weapon and several Marines move forward to a new protected position. Several Sherman tanks line a ridge and fire their guns.
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