USMC 110860: ""Field artillery in amphibious operations: landing and assault""

Item Description
Title
USMC 110860: ""Field artillery in amphibious operations: landing and assault""

Citation information
USMC 110860: ""Field artillery in amphibious operations: landing and assault"". (MH 6974 B.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
10/3225/1

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
MH 6974 B

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 110860

Decade
1950

Date
1953

Description
This training film discusses the effective employment of field artillery in the landing and assault phase of amphibious operations. Five general principles of an amphibious operation plan are described with the help of illustrations along with amphibious landing and assault footage. Film shows various scenes of LSTs approaching land, LVTs moving onto beaches, and troops on land crossing beaches and firing howitzers. USS Middlesex County (LST-983) is shown at sea after loading LSTs.

Location(s)
Unknown

Camera crew
U.S. Navy Photographic Center

Genre
Training

Film date (note)
Produced in 1953.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
B&W

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
585

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
07/08/2023

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

Digital runtime
16:32

Digital file type
video/H264