USMC 103394: TTU maneuvers in Puerto Rico

Item Description
Title
USMC 103394: TTU maneuvers in Puerto Rico

Citation information
USMC 103394: TTU maneuvers in Puerto Rico. (HQ-16-98; R-22-22.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/4322

Marine Corps Library Number
2115-16

Additional identifiers
HQ-16-98; R-22-22

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 103394

Decade
1940

Description
The TTU (Troop Training Unit) was a special Naval unit mostly composed of Marines who fought in the Pacific in WWII. An attack transport, LCVPs, and a K-class blimp maneuver offshore LVTs move along a beach in single file. Marines disembark LCVPs that land on the shore. Sailors lift and clean an anchor. A Marine and a sailor look over the side of a ship. Sailors raise the Navy Jack. Content related to USMC 103380.

Location(s)
Culebra (P.R.); Vieques (P.R.)

Camera crew
Olund

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Filmed between 1946 and 1950 (see USMC 103380).

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
382

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.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
11/14/2020

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

Digital runtime
10:38

Digital file type
video/H264