Marines cross from Peleliu to attack Negesebus

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 have made it to the Northern end of Peleliu-you see them strafing the island of Negesebus-which is only 700 yards from Peleliu. Marine LVTs make the crossing to take and secure the Japanese airstrip and defensive positions of Negesebus. You can just see the old casuseway-that used to link to two islands...

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