USMC 101238: Iwo Jima beach activities

Item Description
Title
USMC 101238: Iwo Jima beach activities

Citation information
USMC 101238: Iwo Jima beach activities. (3D-16-103; R-6-6.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/7

Marine Corps Library Number
0476-16

Additional identifiers
3D-16-103; R-6-6; V.2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101238

Decade
1940

Date
1945-02-28

Description
Beach activities on Iwo Jima. Casualties are loaded onto DUKs and then onto LSMs. Supplies and LVTs are taken off LSMs. Various vehicles drive on beach, directed by MPs. Communication, including radio and visual, set ups are shown. Ships are anchored offshore. Note: Marine MP identifiable with last name of Babb.

Location(s)
Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan)

Camera crew
J. B. Fellows

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed from February 28th-March 4th, 1945.

Division
3rd Division


Battalion
3rd Pioneer Bn


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
400

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
08/19/2019

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

Digital runtime
13:02

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II