Radio chatter recording likely from a USMC combat correspondent reporting for a radio news and was interrupted when a tank commander spots enemy movement nearby. The commander radios the gunner to open fire with the tank's machinegun. That banging and screeching noise you hear is the turret rotating and adjusting. The tank is most probably a M4 Sherman as it was the tank the marines deployed on the island and engaging with what sounds like a Japanese MG nest and its crew. This could also be one of Alvin M. Josephy, Jr's broadcasts but I could be wrong.
UPDATE
I initially titled it with as ...Battle for Iwo Jima as labeled in Archive.org but found out another radio archiver with info that this is actually from the battle of Guam.
* I took it from a half-hour August 1944 radio program featuring interviews of Marines that participated in the Guam landing. The show explains how correspondents from the USMC were unable to deploy on the beach with the combat units and were able to pick up on shortwave the transmissions of the tanks while remaining on the ships. There was no mistake that it was the Guam landing by USMC forces. - Youtuber PhilaVideo [ Ссылка ]
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