USMC 102232: Flight activities on USS Block Island including gun camera footage

Item Description
Title
USMC 102232: Flight activities on USS Block Island including gun camera footage

Citation information
USMC 102232: Flight activities on USS Block Island including gun camera footage. (AVN-16-105; R-2-2.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
11/3942

Marine Corps Library Number
1259-16

Additional identifiers
AVN-16-105; R-2-2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 102232

Decade
1940

Date
1945-05-10

Description
Activities on USS Block Island (CVE-21). Breeches buoy transfer of Lt. Byron L. Cook, who was picked up by USS Lardner (DD-487). Men load rockets onto planes. Col. Dobbin in F4U, Maj. Maze in F4U, and Capt. Berry in TBM. Mechanics look at planes. Gun camera footage of plane strafing and aerials of islands.

Location(s)
Okinawa

Camera crew
E. Veith (SSgt); Mitchell

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed May 10th and 11th, 1945.

Air Group
MASG-48


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
191

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
09/17/2019

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

Digital runtime
5:20

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II