As the invasion of Peleliu gets underway, U.S. Marines unload war supplies and ammunition boxes onto the beach of the island in the Palau group, in September 1944. Note injured Marine on a stretcher at left center.

Marines unload war supplies

Marines stand next to the body of a comrade who fell in the early assault wave during the invasion at Peleliu in the Palau group, September 14, 1944.(rudeerude)

Invasion at Peleliu

U.S. Marines walk amid wreckage of Japanese planes alongside Motoyamo Airstrip No. 1 that were destroyed during aerial bombing and naval shelling prior to American invasion of Iwo Jima,March 1, 1945.(rudeerude)