Peleliu: Marines push up, airstrip construction - G-970

Summary

1944 Peleliu MS Marine walks along road, smoke ring in the sky LS-PAN of desolate Peleliu landscape, Marines can just be seen walking R to L 00:20 1944/09/22 - 15:00 Peleliu - 1st and 7th Marines push up Peninsula CU Marines moving carefully through dense undergrowth MS Marines moving over rocky undergrowth MS Marine operating camera MS Marines R to L over rocky shrubland MS Marine moves quickly through undergrowth MS Marines loading up with grenades 00:59 1944/09/23 - 09:00 Peleliu - 1st and 7th Marines push up Peninsula MS Marines fire multiple grenade rounds MS Marine throws grenade over ridge MS same MS Marines climb up steep ridge MS Marine firing machine gun through growth CU Marine throws grenade CU grenade launcher fires MS group of Marines. one is holding flame as the other lights explosives and throws over ridge, others watch MS same, same, same, same photog: Spangler 02:13 1944/09/21 Peleliu - action at front LS line of Marines walk on road past camera MS makeshift hut with Marines around (Japanese?) MS Japanese vehicle of some sort 02:43 1944/09/27 - 08:00 Peleliu - airport construction Various MS and LS of bulldozers flattening and scooping ground to lay new runway 05:10 MS workers (Seabees?) queueing up for food and drink MS back of truck with debris in it LS-PAN workers eat and drink among airport bulldozers LS planes take off and land on makeshift runway LS plane is wheeled around runway CU box of drink bottles left opened LS construction continues on airport, trucksin FG, bulldozers work in far BG MS bulldozer LS construction continues on airport, trucks in FG, bulldozers work in far BG. trees in FG CU bulldozer picks up stones and puts them in to back of truck Men shower as a group in the rain LS lots of Marines and workers mill about photog: J.A Thompson