USMC 103969: Air delivery at New River

Item Description
Title
USMC 103969: Air delivery at New River

Citation information
USMC 103969: Air delivery at New River. (2D-16-208; R-2-2.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/1441

Marine Corps Library Number
2551-16

Additional identifiers
2D-16-208; R-2-2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 103969

Decade
1950

Description
Air delivery at New River, likely filmed in the late 1940s to early 1950s. Marines load loading ramps onto a truck. Trucks, one loaded with a 105 mm howitzer and another loaded with a weapons carrier, sit on the side of the road. Marines back a truck loaded with a weapons carrier to the fuselage of a R4Q of VMR-252. A maintenance crew secures rockets and bombs to SBDs of VMF-225. Marines parachute supplies out of a R4Q and a SBD. Marines known to be in the film: Bauer, SBD pilot. Content related to USMC 103966.

Location(s)
New River (N.C.)

Camera crew
Unknown

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Likely filmed in the late 1940s to early 1950s.

Division
2nd Division


Air Wing
1st MAW
3rd MAW


Air Group
MAG-25
MAG-13


Squadron
VMR-252
VMF-225


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
159

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
5/26/2021

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

Digital runtime
4:25

Digital file type
video/H264