USMC 101425: Training on Guam and looking at Rota

Item Description
Title
USMC 101425: Training on Guam and looking at Rota

Citation information
USMC 101425: Training on Guam and looking at Rota. (3D-16-80; R-2-3.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/1482

Marine Corps Library Number
0408-16

Additional identifiers
3D-16-80; R-2-3; v.2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101425

Decade
1940

Date
1945-01-15

Description
Training 3rd JASCO officers in TBMs flown by VMTB-131. Aerials and views of land (Harnom Peninsula, Rota) from USS Swanson (DD-443). Marines study relief map of Rota. Destroyer guns fire.

Location(s)
Guam

Camera crew
J. B. Fellows; Franklin; Soule

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed January 15th and 16th, 1945.

Division
3rd Division


Squadron
VMTB-131


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
375

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
05/22/2019

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

Digital runtime
12:24

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II