" Fury in the Pacific " Wwii Battle of Peleliu (1944)

Synopsis

This film will take a look at the Battle of Peleliu which took place from September to November of 1944 during the Mariana and Palau Campaign of WW2. It had been produced by the US Army, Navy, and Marine Corp (:17). The amphibious assault was a joint effort consisting of the Army, Navy, Maine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard (:25). This island was a part of the western most of Japanese mandated islands and had an airstrip on it which was the target of the mission (:50) in order to prevent invasion of the Philippians. Softening up attacks began the campaign and 3,000 sorties would drop over 2 ½ million bombs (1:17). The Eastern Air Force’s heavy bombers are seen in the sky (1:52) and dropping their bomb loads below (2:06). Assault forces arrived from bases like Guadalcanal, Pearl Harbor and the Marshal Islands (2:27). In total 600 ships including battleships, cruisers, destroyers and transports participated (2:43). The 1st Marine Division is viewed from aboard another ship (3:02) and they were to take Peleliu. The ships pointed to on the horizon (3:10) are of the 81st Army Division and they were instructed to take Angaur as it had to be before considering Peleliu secure. Beach installments are hit the day prior to beach landings (3:27). On D-Day, the announcement to man stations is heard over the intercom aboard ship and soldiers begin loading in the 2,000 lb. projectiles into the gun turrets (4:06). Firing of the weapons begins (4:24) and during three days the Navy had fired…

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20 minutes

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Ephemeral Films

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