Max Roemer, USMC

PELELIU CLEANUP

September, 1944

The do-or-die remnants of the Jap forces on Peleliu have to be cleaned out of strong positions in caves and dugouts in the many ridges of the island. Here Marine infantrymen, supported by tanks move up a small draw to attack enemy nests in the hillside. The smoke at left marks the blast of a shell fired by one of the tanks.