USMC 108035: ""Solid Shield 75""

Item Description
Title
USMC 108035: ""Solid Shield 75""

Citation information
USMC 108035: ""Solid Shield 75"". (122-0627-75; R-3-11; 12-1835.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/3360

Marine Corps Library Number
8194-16

Additional identifiers
122-0627-75; R-3-11; 12-1835

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 108035

Decade
1970

Date
1975-05-26

Description
Operation Solid Shield 75 training exercises. An OV10 aicraft flies overhead. Marines, most armed with M16 rifles, prepare 60mm mortar, use a radio, and dress in field. LVTP7s move down a dirt road. Marines prepare ""C"" rations atop the turret of a heavily camouflaged M60 tank and on the ground. M60 tanks move across dirt road. Marines march over road carrying an M72 66mm LAAW and M60 machine gun. LVTP7 moves through water. CH46 helicopter in flight. USN ship lays a smoke screen. Marines, LVTP7s, and M578 full tracked recovery vehicle move up beach.

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

Camera crew
Cook (SSgt)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Equipment tests

Film date (note)
Filmed between the 26th of May to the 8th of June

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
390

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
11/15/2022

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

Digital runtime
10:59

Digital file type
video/H264