Wounded U.S. Marines get blood plasma on Peleliu. Wounded U.S.

Wounded U.S. Marines get blood plasma on Peleliu. Wounded U.S. Marines on Peleliu Island receive transfusions of blood plasma at a first aid station. The Marines landed on Peleliu on Sept. 14, 1944, and at the end of two weeks' fighting, in which the Americans gained control of the island; 580 marines had been killed, 401 were missing and 3,639 were wounded. Enemy dead totaled 11,470 on Peleliu and Angaur, a nearby island in the Pacific Palau group.