Rare Audio Recording of the Battle of Peleliu (1944) 

This is extraordinary, somewhere on that beach is my grandfather. Wow.

I thought I would never hear WWII audio recordings, in my lifetime thank you. This just highlights and elevates what I believe it was like in the front line. I've been fascinated by WWII ever since watching Saving Private Ryan on the big screen, and perhaps, even way back in the early 1990s where I would sit for hours listening and recording on tape to a short-lived jazz radio station as a kid in Los Angeles that would play 1920s-1940s music. For some reason the music seemed familiar even at the age I was.

I can tell by the reporter's voice he is witnessing a lot of casualties but does not tell the audience.

Thank you for making it possible for me (and everyone) to listen to this extraordinary event. This is unprecedented in my 65 years of age to be able to listen to an actual WW2 battle. I who was born only 8 years after this happened. I can’t help thinking of the US soldiers who risked their lives and especially of those who gave their lives for our freedom.

My grandad's DD hit a mine in the Palaus and nearly sank as part of this campaign, thanks for sharing

I seen footage of this and read a lot on this battle, but hearing it just seems to make it more real. Respect to the soldiers who fought and died on that tiny little island.

I bet theres alot of this stuff growing dust in attics and basements

Very dramatic recording, especially knowing how difficult the conquest of the island proved to be. The recording took me back in time.

By the end of the beach landings at Peleliu, 60 LVTs were destroyed, it had the highest amphibious assaults casualty rates of any landing in the Pacific theater.

Thank you for posting

The cacophony of war is always unreal to listen to and I can only imagine it doesn’t begin to describe the sheer overload of the senses, hearing most of all.

Hi Chubachus, first of all many thanks for all outstanding work that you're carrying out. And second, where the hell do you get this Historic pieces? I've tired to picked around on National Archives website. If you could send me the link or the way to do, I'll very appreciate it. PS: Thanks, I hope for your answer.

As soon as our guys hit the beach a mass of enemy fire starts up .this is amazing

I think the same guy made a similar recording on Iwa Jima. Theres also a tank crew recording talking to other tanks Iwa Jima 1945.

The courage is overwhelming. This makes me emotional thinking of all the heroism and sacrifice.

Audio recordings like this are rare. Thanks very much. What I also found interesting is the image that accompanied this recording on RU-vid. Why? If you look carefully you will see marines who are minorities for example at least two blacks. I can tell you that minorities in US battle scenes are extremely rare.

Greatest Marines EVER. Semper Fi

Gosh, I strangely find these audios are far more moving than the war-time film footage.

Amazing

Grateful for this. I hope the Iran/NK issue doesn’t Escalade here in America

The photo shows a relatively quiet area of the beach, if "quiet" can be taken with a big grain of salt, as evidenced by the marines standing in the background. If there was local shooting, everyone would have been on the deck.

is there any way i could get this mp3 from you for a veterans video i am producing?

The island , too big to take it in one blow and too small for big manoeuvers.

Was the reporter from New England?

Is this a genuine description of events? Because at the end the narrator says the landing has been incredibly successful yet didn’t this have the highest body count of any amphibious assault during the entire war?

Intense subded

If it was before it ain't rare anymore after putting on RU-vid.

I have a couple of questions for the experts out there. 1/ These are black guys in the photo, did the USMC employ black Marines in combat during WW2? 2/ What are the circular lighter colour patches on the uniforms of the guys in the centre of the picture, could they be gas detectors?

War, what's it good for. Absolutely nothing.

I wanna say....... America vs Anime.... Ford vs Toyota