WWII - 1944, Palau: Peleliu & Ngesebus Island Fighting Marines & Japanese POWs; Rain. 26-29Sep44

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, Palau: Peleliu & Ngesebus Island Fighting Marines & Japanese POWs; Rain. 26-29Sep44 Salte: PFC F.J Adler 27Sep44 Roll 51 Peleliu Flag Raising. MLS Line of officers looking left saluting; pan left to USA flag on pole on antenna. Marines or soldiers saluting. CU bugler. LS tanks across coral w/ small L-2 Grasshopper observation plane overhead. 11:09:12 Slate: Same 28Sep44 Roll 59 3rd BN 5th Marines, Ngesibus aka Ngesebus aka Ngedbus island Marines in ditch on radio-telephone, LVT crossing in background; MS & CU Marines on field telephone; CU mapping, drawing on map w/ sectors. 11:09:59 Column of Marines across sand or muddy beach on roadway. 11:10:19 Slate: Same, 27Sep44 Roll 60. Marines past destroyed foliage & trees; Marine w/ rifle climbs dirt bank, reaches down to dead Marine & keeps going. 11:10:54 Slate: Same 27Sep44 Roll 64. Marines standing in jungle clearing beside tank; MS tank parked & firing in devastated foliage. Marines firing automatic rifles from side of bomb crater ; CU of shoulder firing. 11:12:18 Slate: Same 29Sep44 Roll 61 .Marines resting, crouched w/ rifles, looking. Smoke rising from jungle. Firing bazooka / M1A1 rocket launcher. 11:13:21 Marine leading Japanese Prisoners of War / POWs carrying stretcher w/ wounded Japanese; placed on ground. CUs resting. Carrying thru destroyed jungle; walking wounded. 11:14:26 Japanese POWs & Marines on shoreline waving to LVT arriving in heavy rain. Sitting under sheet metal watching column of arriving soldiers, some w/ fixed-bayonets walking past. 3 talking in rain ponchos. 11:15:13 High angle / HA of cave entrances & smoke. 11:15:32 Slate: Camera J.P. Franklin Roll 27 Pelelieu 26Sep44 Attempt to dislodge Japs by 7th ? Continuation of HA of caves, smoking. 11:15:42 Marine at machine gun on top of tracked vehicle, another w/ rifle. MCU Marines firing automatic rifles. CU Marine officer watching from jeep, driving away through deep mud w/ other jeeps. Officers walk past. WW2; Battles; Fighting; Fatigue; Tiredness; Horrors of War; Death; NOTE: Battle of Peleliu by 1st Marine Division & 81st Infantry Division. 15Sep - 27Nov44 NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. GOOD action & exposure. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk