Peleliu: Flag raising, Japanese POWs, front lines Ngesebus - G-178
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07:18
Description:
1944
Peleliu - Flag raising
Various Marines salute and buglar blows bugle
photog: Roy Morris
01:12
1944
Peleliu - Japanese prisoners naked
MS-PAN naked Japanese prisoners crouch
MS two naked Japanese prisoners are bangaged
MS Japanese prisoners walk over rocks
01:44
1944
Peleliu
MS four Marines sit on wooden trunk - toilet? Japanese?
LS Marines and LVTs advance across open ground
MS tank advances with Marines following
MS Marines crouching in undergrowth
MS Marines and tank
MS tank - Marine head popping out of turret
MS Japanese prisoners
02:45
1944
Peleliu - boats circling towards Ngesebus island
LS various LCs circle in ocean - smoke is far BG on Ngesebus Island
LS Ngesebus Island in distance
POV from tank - Marines and tanks up ahead
MS injured Marine is helped
03:34
1944/09/27
Peleliu - 5th Marines front lines
MS Marine sleeping against tree
LS radar tower
MS dead Japanese soldier
MS Marine guarding exit to Japanese cave
CU smoke in cave
MS Marines with flamethrower kits move round rocks
MS Marine with bazooka kit fires on enemy
LS hits in trees in distance
05:03
1944/09/2? - 8am
Peleliu - Ngesebus Island landing
LS shell hits on Ngesebus island in distance
LS line of tanks underneath camera along road
CU tanks pass along road
LS line of tanks underneath camera along road
LS tanks and Marines gather along road
LS, LS, LS-PAN LCs make their way over to Ngesebus Island
photog: J.A Thomson