WWII - Color, 1944, Palau: Peleliu Fighting. Sep44

WWII - Color, 1944, Palau: Peleliu Fighting. Sep44 VS US Marines on ravaged island landscape. Artillery firing at overhead plane. AVs island, most foliage destroyed. MS troops pinned down on side of hill - uniforms and men filthy. Corpse on ground. US troops in foxhole with dead Japanese? 19:04:43 Ground troops and amphibious tanks moving across waterlogged beach. A Battery 3rd Battalion, 3rd Amphibious move gun to emplacement. 19:05:16 Wounded carried on stretchers waiting for evacuation. Stretcher carried on to landing craft. 12 AA special weapons being set up. Amphibious tanks along shoreline. Arrival of supplies. 5th Marines ammunition dump. Two marines from 3rd Bn. 11th Marines inspect knocked out 105mm Howitzer. Machine gun fires at foxholes. LS plane drops bomb on horizon. Two marines who have strayed from outfit taking cover by emplacement. Pacific War; WW2; Battles;