WWII - Color, 1944, Palau: Peleliu Destruction; Dogs & Handlers; Burial Team. 20-21Sep44

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - Color, 1944, Palau: Peleliu Destruction; Dogs & Handlers; Burial Team. 20-21Sep44 Pan destroyed Japanese installation under camouflaging vines; Marines walk thru & check weapons. 12:01:44 Slate: Roll before this on tanks & dogs was no. 36. Roll 37 1st Div Peleliu Lundigan Grid 136 H E Co 1st Rangers in former Jap installation will show Jap heavy dual purpose guns in area. 12:02:01 Ranger walks in front of large artillery barrel & bomb craters; inspects damaged heavy artillery. 12:02:23 4 handlers w/ dogs past. Marines tending wounded under shade canvas, 12:02:59 Slate: D-5 1005 - Dual purpose guns 5 total. PFC Russell Stevenson - heat prostration. 1st Ranger BN puppy adopted by outfit Lundigan Roll 38. Soldier drinking water; officers looking at map; radioman. 12:03:31 Slate: Lt. Layton Bailey & men in what was until 10 mins ago 5th Marines C.P. Hr 10:40 Lt is supply officer 2nd BN. Jeep arrives, men looking at badly damaged large concrete structure; dogs & handlers in pool outside concrete bldg. Marines moving about. LS smoke rising from jungle nearby, pan back to large damaged concrete bldgs. 12:04:39 Slate: Jap R.D.F. / (Radio Direction Finder station) now C.P. of 5th Grid 136 E Main Bldg runs E-W Entrance is west end. NOTE: May be Ngardololok installation. 12:04:53 3 officers inside standing talking, man at radio. 12:05:00 Slate: Roll 40 Lundigan - Grid 136 E Col Harris Col Salden setting up new C.P. for 5th in Jap R.D.F. D+5 1145. 12:05:17 Soldier on low point, pan r. to l. across marsh or bay. Soldier looking thru double binocular telescope, MCU of instrument on top of fuel barrel. Slate: F.O. for artillery fire on center of grid 144. F.O. is 143 V . 12:06:09 Tidal flat or marsh. MCU Japanese translators or ?? looking out, tilt up to Ranger or Marine climbing ladder in tree; standing on viewing platform. Soldiers resting at base; man cranking electrical generator for telephone. 12:07:10 Slate: Roll 41 Lundigan More angles on F.O. for Art & Naval gun fire as they cover George Co Advancing up N.E. Cost of peninsula in Grid 144 O. D-5 1500. 12:07:27 Marines washing in helmets water by bomb crater . Marines reading newspaper at bnse of tree. Soldiers resting, talking. Searching large bags of rice left by Japanese. Standing beside bomb carts . 12:09:08 Burial Registration team beside stretchers in cemetery, sign: Keep Out Cemetery. CU grave mounds; soldiers taking fingerprints of dead beside body bags & tarps. Soldiers digging graves. 12:09:43 End slate: Peleliu.Forming Defense Line C Co. ?? Cemetery misc. 21Sep44 14:00 Roll 20 Camera L.R. Filson. WW2; Pacific War; 1940s; Fighting;20Sep44; War Animals; Dead Buried; Post-Invasion; Graves Registration And Burial Detachment; NOTE: Battle of Peleliu by 1st Marine Division & 81st Infantry Division. 15Sep - 27Nov44. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. GOOD action & color. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk