USMC 105220: LST and Navy Cross Award Ceremony

Item Description
Title
USMC 105220: LST and Navy Cross Award Ceremony

Citation information
USMC 105220: LST and Navy Cross Award Ceremony. (HQ-16-16-68; HQ-16-28-67; R-1-1; 57-0313.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/2029

Marine Corps Library Number
3229-16

Additional identifiers
HQ-16-16-68; HQ-16-28-67; R-1-1; 57-0313

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 105220

Decade
1950

Date
1968

Description
Marines board onto various LST vessels, including USS Waldo County (LST-1163) and USS Suffolk County (LST-1173). Supplies and equipment are loaded. A tugboat assists the LST out of port while two armed marines watch the ships pull away from their position on the pier. Trucks drive single file down the road to port. USMC Gen. Leonard F. Chapman Jr. gives the Navy Cross medal to USMC helicopter aviator, Capt. Rupert E. Fairfield, for his actions piloting a UH1E in Vietnam to rescue fellow Marines.

Location(s)
Morehead City (N.C.); Radio Island (N.C.); Camp Lejeune (N.C.)

Camera crew
Rossi

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Division
2nd 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
325

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
06/29/2022

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5k

Digital runtime
9:00

Digital file type
video/H264