Summary

US Marines in combat on island of Peleliu in island nation of Palau during World War II

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # C5432
Clip SR002275_04_03mov
Date 09/15/1944
Title US Marines in combat on island of Peleliu in island nation of Palau during World War II
Description Several shots of Marines advancing / officer yelling and making hand signals / Marine talking on field telephone / dead Marine lying on beach in front of burning tank / Marines on beach, Marines around wounded Marine on stretcher / Marines sitting and kneeling around wounded Marine lying on ground / two shots of Marines treating wounded Marine / close view of Marine talking to another Marine / close view of two Marines looking at map / CU Marine talking to another Marine / CU Marine drinking from container
Country Palau

Keywords

archival
newsreel
World War II
islands
Peleliu
United States Marines
corpses
bodies
tanks
wounded
soldiers
beaches
fires
signals
officers
shouting
military action
invasions
maps
drinking
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