ACCESS FOOTAGE

Description:

1944/09/25 - 15:00
Peleliu - 5th reg moving to north end of island, naval flares over front lines.
MS Marines pulling ammunition carts and 37mm guns along road.
MS ambulance passing in front of camera
MS Marines marching in column file down road
MS Marines and war dogs going down road
MS eating Chow
MS tank rolls by, loaded down with troops going down road
LS flares drifting over front lines
MLS hospital area with Marine having his head bandaged
CU tank approaching and rollin by
MS Marine dead being carried back
MS Marine drinking from canteen and eating Chow
CU Marine eating Chow with a bayonet

02:54
1944/09/26 - 08:15
Peleliu - 1st - 5th reg making push to north end of island
MLS through dense jungle, tanks firing on caves in hillside
US Marines walking towards the front
LS toward the hillside where explosion is visible
MS Marines in a foxhole and others advancing, everyone moves up
LS hillside where shells are hitting, another angle of the same
MS Marines advancing through jungle
MS carrying a dead Marine back
MS-PAN Marine in the shadows looking at the hill with binoculars

05:25
1944/09/26 - 14:45
Peleliu - 5th and tanks push to north end of island
MS tank advancing on the road. This is shot through dense jungle with Marines following behind it.
MLS Marines advancing behind tanks
MS jungle, tank firing
MCU tank firing, turret rotating and rapid fire from the machine gun
MS tank rolling forward in to dense jungle
MCU Marine as he crouches behind tree
MS tank rolling forward through dense jungle
MS Marine, tanks advancing
CU Marine taking drink from canteen, his weapon is leaning against a tree
CU Marine leaning against tree, resting

06:45
1944/09/27 - 02:15
Peleliu -
MS Marines crouching writing notes
MS pile of ruibbish
MS silhouetted Marine from L to R
LS Marines carrying wounded man
MS shell hits in the distance
MCU Marines examining the exterior and entrance to a Japanese cave, dead Japanese hand

08:13
1944/09/27 - 09:00
Peleliu - assault on last ridge with tanks and flamethrower
CU Marine in camouflaged helmet and skivi shirt, looking at Japanese money
CU money in the Marines hands
MLS tanks firing in to jungle at pillbox hillside
MCU gunner on the tank firing a machine gun at the pillbox
MS pillbox smoking
MS LVT with men aboard rolling forward
MS LVT with flamethrower aboard, firing
MS Marine rifleman firing
CU area where the flame is hitting target
MS Marine rifleman firing
MS tank
CU Marine smoking cigarette, white clouds of smoke rising in the BG
CU rear of another Marine
MS Marines leaning crouched up against a wall
photog: P. Peters