USMC 101634: War is over on CVE-109

Item Description
Title
USMC 101634: War is over on CVE-109

Citation information
USMC 101634: War is over on CVE-109. (AVN-16-174; R-7-8.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/1136

Marine Corps Library Number
0713-16

Additional identifiers
AVN-16-174; R-7-8; v.1

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101634

Decade
1940

Date
1945-08-13

Description
Sailors and Marines receive news on USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109) that war has ended via radio and celebrate. Marines and sailors on liberty go to island via LCVPs for beer party, drink, look at ruins, a cemetery, and a skull, and play in the water.

Location(s)
East China Sea

Camera crew
Rubalcava

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed mid-August 1945.

Air Wing
MAW-2


Air Group
MASG-48
MCVG-4


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
300

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
04/09/2019

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

Digital runtime
9:42

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II