USMC 105968: ""Reserves Live Fire""

Item Description
Title
USMC 105968: ""Reserves Live Fire""

Citation information
USMC 105968: ""Reserves Live Fire"". (Q-16-103-69; 55-1120; R-8-11.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
14/195

Marine Corps Library Number
6355-16

Additional identifiers
Q-16-103-69; 55-1120; R-8-11

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 105968

Decade
1960

Date
1969-07-09

Description
Reserves undergo firearms training with an M60 machine gun. An LCM delivers Marines from the USS Muliphen (AKA-61/LKA-61) to shore for beach landing exercises. Marines set up camouflage net over an M114 155 mm Howitzer. Marines armed with M14 rifles ride LVTP5s. Marines move to assault fortified position as a part of an exercise armed with various weaponry including an M2 flamethrower, M20 super bazooka, and rifles. A foreign village is simulated. A UH34 helicopter circles above ships.

Location(s)
Camp Lejeune (N.C.)

Camera crew
Thompson, W. R.; Armstrong; Ferrari

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
LCM footage filmed on the 16th of June, 1968

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
08/12/2022

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

Digital runtime
11:38

Digital file type
video/H264