Marines hit Peleliu, September 15th, 1944

During the making of HBO's THE PACIFIC, I served as a researcher with the duty of providing period film footage clips such as this one - shot on the same locations as the 10 part mini-series follows: Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Now that the series is airing you might find these short clips interesting. I appolojize for the lack of audio, yet they were only intended as simple visual aids for the Prop and Art Departments. Nevertheless, by watching them you'll get an idea of what it was like in these remote island battlefield locations.

In this clip you see: Marines in action on Peleliu: 1919A4 Light machine gun, 60MM mortar, 2.36 rocket launcher (bazooka), M2 frag grenades, Moltov coctails, Corpsmen in action-corpsmen getting shot at (fair game to the Japanese on Peleliu)...

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