USMC 102140: Howitzer battery on Okinawa

Item Description
Title
USMC 102140: Howitzer battery on Okinawa

Citation information
USMC 102140: Howitzer battery on Okinawa. United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/1128

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 102140

Decade
1940

Date
1945-05-11

Description
Shots of bursts on the front lines. Tank flamethrower fires at Japanese cave. Casualty carried via stretcher. Col. Hiatt and Maj. Owens look at map and discuss where howitzers should fire. Howitzers are set up and fired.

Location(s)
Okinawa

Camera crew
R. W. Miller; E. A. Frost (PFC)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed May 11th-13th, 1945.

Division
6th Division


Regiment
22nd Marines


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
09/06/2019

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

Digital runtime
8:58

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II