USMC 104693: Con Thien

Description: Item Description Title USMC 104693: Con Thien Citation information USMC 104693: Con Thien. United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 01/122/1 Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 MIRC inventory no. USMC 104693 Decade 1960 Date -05-14 Description Marines fire M19 mortars from trenches in Vietnam. Daily life in the trenches. C130 aircraft flies overhead before airdropping supplies. An LVTP-5 rolls past the screen with many marines hitching a ride on top. A young marine places peanut butter on a cracker and eats it. Another listens to a record and reads the paper. LVTH-61 mounted with 105mm howitzer fires. US Army Green Berets sit beside a Marine officer, all observing the front before the Marine speaks into a radio. Location(s) Con Thien (Vietnam) Camera crew Della Puca, L. C. Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Conflict (combat) Film date (note) Filmed in May of 1967 or 1968. Division 3rd Division 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 400 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 05/03/2022 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5k Digital runtime 11:01 Digital file type video/H264 Keywords Vietnam War