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ROCKET AND LANDING SEQUENCES Part 2

Description

Summary: LSs, MS, rocket ship moving toward island, firing rockets. CU, rocket ship fires, camera pans to follow rockets. LS, rocket ships in echelon firing. LS, pan, transports at sea. LS, MS, CU, Ernie Pyle, War Corresspondent, and group of men seated on deck of ship listening to accordian player and watching one of the men jitterbug. MS, CU, officer aboard ship exchanging US dollars for invasion money. MCU, soldier examining invasion money. MLS, soldiers are briefed aboard ship. Individual shots, men listening. CU, Ernie Pyle in landing craft drinking from canteen. LS, pan, landing craft en route to shore, transports in bg. AVs, landing craft in water off Okinawa. LS, landing craft nearing beach. MS, marines coming ashore, moving inland.

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Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities

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Date
1945
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TRT
3:10