USMC 101089: ""Tank Battalion Story 1""

Item Description
Title
USMC 101089: ""Tank Battalion Story 1""

Citation information
USMC 101089: ""Tank Battalion Story 1"". (1D-16-55.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/1436

Marine Corps Library Number
0077-16

Additional identifiers
1D-16-55; v.2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101089

Decade
1940

Date
1944-08-21

Description
A Company and unspecified tank battalion. Marines prepare tank to test flamethrower. Shots of different tanks, including tank bulldozers and retrievers. Signs indicate General Vandegrift troop inspection, and officers brief over map of Peleliu. Shots of Marines sitting on tanks. Marines known to be present in the film: Jack Naut (Cpl).

Location(s)
Pavuvu; Russell Islands

Camera crew
C. D. Evans (Sgt)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed on August 21st and 22nd, 1944.

Division
1st Division


Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Reversal: Positive

Original physical length
175

Original aspect ratio
1.37:1 (Academy)

Original media type
Motion pictures (visual works)

Language
English

Contributing organization
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections


Digital collection name
United States Marine Corps Films


Rights information
Public Domain. For further information please contact Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
01/23/2019

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye.

Digital runtime
5:34

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II