USMC 102228: Flight activities on USS Block Island

Item Description
Title
USMC 102228: Flight activities on USS Block Island

Citation information
USMC 102228: Flight activities on USS Block Island. (AVN-16-98; R-3-3.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/697

Marine Corps Library Number
1244-16

Additional identifiers
AVN-16-98; R-3-3

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 102228

Decade
1940

Date
1945-05-06

Description
Flight activities on USS Block Island (CVE-109). F4Us, TBMs, and F6Fs land on deck and are moved around. Tractor driver is Pfc. Maurice Settler. Rear Adm. Calvin T. Durgin and pilot Capt. F. Massie Hughes talk on deck with Maj. Robert D. Maze. Cpl. Roy W. Brown, 1st Lt. Gilbert Royer, and Cpl. Bernard T. Chupka talk and look at situation map. Sgt. John Refi sleeps on wing of F4U. Mail is transferred via buoy line with USS Edmonds (DE-406). Sgt. Charles Hulse, Sgt. Earle J. Schmidt, Sgt. Paul A. Redd, Sgt. Charles L. Hopkins, and Cpl. Douglas E. Babbitt work on planes.

Location(s)
Okinawa

Camera crew
Moriarty; E. Veith (SSgt)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed May 5th and 9th, 1945.

Air Wing
MAW-2


Air Group
MASG-48
MCVG-1


Squadron
VMF-511


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
390

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
09/18/2019

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

Digital runtime
10:17

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II