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US Marines Capture The Palau Island Chain
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keywords: wwii, pacific theater, invasion palau islands
Synopsis: Using flamethrowers and explosives US Marines in the Palau island chain go cave by cave forcing the Japanese defenders to either die in place or surrender...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:00:55
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Palau Islands
US Marines Capture The Palau Island Chain
3rd Corp Marines mopping up on Peleliu or Beliliou, an island in the island nation of Palau. CU of Marines loading and firing a mortar. U.S. Marine uses a flamethrower at entrance to underground Japanese bunker or cave. Japanese soldier shot escaping from cave. Marines use explosives to blast the Japanese from cave. Surrendering Japanese soldiers with hands raised.
Shot List:
01:02;39;12
Marine uses flame thrower to flush out Japanese soldiers from underground bunkers
01:02:43;05
U.S. Marine shoots Japanese soldier flushed out of underground bunker
01:03:01;14
Japanese soldiers surrender
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- Newsreels: 1944 - November 2
