Marine Machine Gunner runs to next position on Peleliu

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: Marine machine gunner cradles his Browning 1917 HMG "Basilone" style-as he runs like hell up the beach and to the cover of the brush-as Peleliu is proving to be a HOT Beachhead... Followed by Marine LVTs hitting the beach to unload their cargo of Devil Dogs!

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