SECOND WORLD WAR PICTURES , TEXTS , VIDEOS AND COMMENTS BY VIDEOS

 Smoke Rises from Peleliu as Gun Crew on LCI Breaks for Coffee

  1st Marine Division Tommy Gunner on Peleliu 1944

  Battle of Peleliu The first wave of U.S. Marines in  LVTs  during the invasion of Peleliu on September 15, 1944 Date 15 September – 27 November 1944 (2 months, 1 week and 5 days) Location Peleliu ,  Palau Islands 7°00′N   134°15′E Coordinates :  7°00′N   134°15′E Result American victory Belligerents   United States   Japan Commanders and leaders William H. Rupertus Paul J. Mueller Roy S. Geiger Herman H. Hanneken Harold D. Harris Lewis B. Puller Kunio Nakagawa   † Sadae Inoue Units involved III Amphibious Corps 1st Marine Division 81st Infantry Division Additional support units Peleliu garrison 14th Infantry Division 49th Mixed Brigade 45th Guard Force 46th Base Force Additional support units Strength 47,561 [1] :36 10,900 [1] :37 17  tanks [2] Casualties and losses 7,919 1,460 killed [3] :327 14,000 [3] :327 (including losses in the surrounding islands) 13,600 killed 400 captured Location within Palau   The...

  1st Division Marines Carry Wounded Comrades to Peleliu Beach (1944)

  1st Marine LVTs Going Ashore 15 September 1944

 1st Marine Division radio team set up just off the beach at Peleliu 

  1st Marine Division Combat Photographer with A6M5 September 1944 

 Praying soldiers of the 1st Marine Division 

 Battle of Peleliu (15 September – 27 November 1944)

  Sailor reading in his bunk aboard USS CAPELIN at submarine base New London, Connecticut

 "Marine Pfc. Douglas Lightheart (right) cradles his 30-cal. machine gun in his lap, while he and his buddy Pfc. Gerald Churchby take time out for a cigarette, while mopping up the enemy on Peleliu (Republic of Palau) Is." Cpl. H. H. Clements, September 14, 1944. 127-N-97628. [The Marine on the left has been tentatively identified through information received by the National Archives as being Gerald P. Thursby, Sr. of Akron, Ohio, not Gerald Churchby] National Archives Identifier

    U.S. Marine `Raiders' and their dogs, which are used for scouting and running messages, starting off for the jungle front lines on Bougainville (Papua New Guinea). " T.Sgt. J. Sarno, ca. November/December 1943. 

 "American Ordnanceman loading belted cartridges into SBD-3 at NAS Norfolk, Virginia." (September 1942)

 "Mechanics check engine of SNJ at Kingsville Field, NATC, Corpus Christi, Texas." (November 1942.)

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     Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from San Pedro.           Evacuees lived at this center at the former Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to relocation centers.  (April 5, 1942)

 Launching of USS ROBALO 9 May 1943, at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

 "Chippers."  Women war workers of Marinship Corp during the Second World War.

 Riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, CA 

  "Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school." Howard R. Hollem, April 1942.