Landing Craft in Action, Land Action Part 1

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ok INDEX NO. 917 PRODUCED BY LOCATION DATE 2D TARAWA UNK Dec 1943 NEGATIVE POSITIVE DUPL. NEG. MASTER 16MM 35MM LENGTH 10 9 Col. 350 ft. SUBJECT: LANDING CRAFT IN ACTION, LAND ACTION CROSS REFERENCE CU-PAN Marines passing by camera on bench, LOCATION-Tarawa some have bandages on arms and necks. TERRAIN-Beach CU-PAN AASame, no wounded men, only Marines UNIFORM-Combat with full combat clothing and equipment, NAVY-Officers, USMC landing craft scattered around in BG on UNIFORMS-Dungarees beach. FORTIFICATIONS-Gun CU Two star Marine General in dungarees with Emplacement helmet sitting under Palm tree, other WEAPONS-Grenade, Hand Marines in BG. PHOTOGRAPHERS-Official MS Marines examining Japanese heavy machine DAMAGE, TO-Aircraft gun emplacement on beach. DAMAGE, BY-Crash MS Marine throwing hand grenade into machine CREW-Tank gun emplacement on beach. Marines near LANDING VEHICLES-LVT camera in FG looking on, then all hit the EXPLOSIONS-Shell deck at same time. PRISONERS-Japanese QUALITY CONT'D. PLANES-Bombing, Dive HQ NO. 2D-16-6 REEL 11 of 17 INDEX NO. 917

Collection

Records of the U.S. Marine Corps

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Films of Marine Corps Activities