USMC 102422: Flight operations on USS Cape Gloucester

Item Description
Title
USMC 102422: Flight operations on USS Cape Gloucester

Citation information
USMC 102422: Flight operations on USS Cape Gloucester. (P-3942; AVN-16-166; R-3-5.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/1158

Marine Corps Library Number
1377-16

Additional identifiers
P-3942; AVN-16-166; R-3-5; v.2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 102422

Decade
1940

Date
1945-07-25

Description
Photo lab activities on USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109). TBMs and bombs moved around deck. Shots of destroyer escorts, guns being fired, and men working on arresting cables. Aerials of Okinawa. Planes signaled for take off. F4Us and TBMs take off and land. Officers in signal box. Shots of planes on deck.

Location(s)
East China Sea; Okinawa

Camera crew
Rubalcava; Witney

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed July 25th-28th, 1945.

Air Wing
MAW-2


Air Group
MASG-48
MCVG-4


Squadron
VMF-351
VMTB-132


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
360

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
10/19/2019

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

Digital runtime
10:02

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II