Peleliu Tank Trap USMC

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 race to secure their objectives they pass the large Japanese anti tank ditch which surrounds the air strip. This anti tank ditch served as cover and as a command post (CP) for Chesty Puller and his 1st Marines - today one can still walk within the tank ditch yet it is only about 1' deep as the jungle has reclaimed much of it since the 1944 battle.

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