General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. INVASION OF PELELIU: Japanese BOOTY: EVACUATION OF WOUNDED

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. INVASION OF PELELIU: Japanese BOOTY: EVACUATION OF WOUNDED

1944

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1) MCU Dud Japanese bomb.2) MS Man examines Japanese power plant.3) MS Gun crew loads & fires 155MM gun-SV.4) MS Marines cautiously examine Japanese pillbox.5) MS Marines read mail.6) MS Wrecked Japanese pillbox.7) LS Shells explode on Japanese positions, wreckage FG-SV.8) LS Flame thrower burns out Japanese positions-SV.9) MS Interior shots--Maj. Gen. Rupertus confers with staff officers (UX)-SV.10) MS Marines bathe war dogs; Japanese truck in use by Marines.11) MS Marine examines Japanese radio transmitter.12) MS Marine examines Japanese 25-power field binocs.13) LS-MS First TBF lands; Marines great pilot.14) LS Shells explode on Japanese positions.15) MS Men run thru devastated area.16) MS-CU Line of Marines advances past camera.17) MS Corpsmen evacuate wounded on stretchers-SV.QUALITY: FAIR

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Rupertus, W. H. (William Henry), 1889-1945

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William Henry Rupertus was born November 14, 1889, in Washington, D.C. He received his commission in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1913, and served with the American Legation in Peking from 1929 to 1933, and then with the Fourth U.S. Marines in Shanghai, China in 1937 and 1938. He commanded the Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C. from 1938 to 1940, advancing to the rank of brigadier general in January 1942, then major general in July 1943. From July 1943 to November 1944, he commanded the First U.S. ...