Product Description

Peleliu 1944: Horror in the Pacific, recipient of 1993 Telly Award and 1992 Columbus International Film Festival Citation as Best Documentary and featuring Eugene (E.B.) Sledge,author of With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, tells the true story of the men of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment (K-3-5) and the ferocious Battle of Peleliu, "an island on fire", during World War II in the Pacific Theater. In conditions that tested the sanity of each man, 9,000 Marines attacked 10,000 battle-hardened Japanese soldiers dug into hundreds of fortified and reinforced coral and limestone caves. 28 days of unrelenting battle with no quarter asked or given. Against a backdrop of archival footage and photographs, the Battle of Peleliu is told by Eugene (E. B.) Sledge (also featured in Ken Burns' film The War as seen on PBS), Bill Leyden, R. V. Burgin, Jay De L'eau (all characters,including Sledge, in the upcoming HBO mini-series, The Pacific, March 2010, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, producers) and Roy "One-Shot" Kelly is as harrowing as any in the history of modern warfare. A battle of total annihilation fought in inhuman conditions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110721 in DVD
• Model: kp1004
• Published on: 1992
• Rating: Unrated
• Formats: NTSC, Color
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 59 minutes