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1944/09/20
Peleliu operations - 1st Marines division
LS-PAN Marines examining debris
MS Marines examining Japanese gun emplacement (Pioneers)
MCU Marines setting up machine gun

01:06
1944/09/20 - 10:05
Peleliu - dual purpose guns, heat prostration
MLS Japanese guns
MS Marine walking over to gun, examining emplacement and weapon
MS Marines with war dogs walking towards camera along road
MS over hill, Marines walking around, boxes with red cross insignia on them
MS casualty, MArine and puppy playing around. Casualty is PFC Russel Stevenson suffering from heat prostration

02:23
1944/09/20 - 10:40
Peleliu - Layton Bailey in what was 5th Marines C.P
MS Marine drinking out of can
MCU Marine examining map
MCU Marine operating switchboard, shot through a rack with mattress on it

02:55
1944/09/20
Peleliu - Japanese R.D.F - now 5th Marines Command Post
MS Jeep driving away from camera towards demolished building
MS Marine and his dog wading in a pool, also several other war dogs standing around with their handlers.
MS wrecked building, PAN from building to debris covered area.
MS wrecked Japanese field piece. Marine carrying binoculars to other Marine sitting with map, the camera continues to PAN, smoke rising in the distance, PAN from smoke to demolished building.
MCU officer speaking to another officer. They are Col Harris and Col Selden. They are setting up a new CP.

04:40
1944/09/20 - 15:00
Peleliu - intelligence operation for artillery fire on center of grid
LS lagoon, PAN to man using some Japanese binoculars
CU Japanese binoculars
LS lagoon
MS-PAN Marines sitting on the deck, cameraman gives a tilt, PAN ending in tree.
MS observer
MS Marines with telephone working at the foot of ladder, leading in to the tree

06:57
1944/09/21 - 14:00
Peleliu - forming defense, cemetary
MS man sitting under tree, one man looking at paper, others relaxed in BG. Men working a radio and a generator.
MS two Marines bathing and washing their hair at the edge of the pool, using their helmets.
MS two Marines leaning against a tree, reading papers.
MS men resting, one man sitting with a Thompson sub-machine gun
MS through the jungle growth of Marines standing looking around
MS men examining captured Japanese equipment and running rice through their hands. Picking it up and pouring it back in the sacks.
MCU Marine walking away from camera with his canteen in his hand. The camera PANS slowly from L to R with the Marine as he joins a group standing.
MS Marines standing by ammunition carts, relaxing.
MS cemetary, Marines working in it
MS cemetary
MCU registration official taking fingerprints
LS cemetary and Marines working, digging and covering up.
photog: Lundigan