USMC 110867: ""Foothills, PHIBLEX 1-60""

Item Description
Title
USMC 110867: ""Foothills, PHIBLEX 1-60""

Citation information
USMC 110867: ""Foothills, PHIBLEX 1-60"". (CMC 3-59.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
13/4703

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
CMC 3-59

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 110867

Decade
1950

Date
1959-05-28

Description
In this ""Technical Film Report,"" the 1st Marines Expeditionary Force conducts an amphibious landing exercise demonstrating rapid deployment of an antiaircraft unit, dubbed Foothills 1-60, as part of Operation Twin Peaks, PHIBLEX 17-59. Loading operations entail Marines, with the help of Navy personnel, driving prime movers, twin missile carriers, and other vechicles aboard USS Polk County (LST-1084) and USS Russell County (LST-1090). An LCM pushes a temporary causeway onto the beach. Bulldozers anchor the causeway's cables on the beach and build a a sand ramp. Marines construct a wire mesh surface matting for the causeway. USS Tioga County (LST-1158) and USS Snohomish County (LST-1126) approach the causeway with the help of LCMs. Marines attach the ships to the causeway before vehicles are unloaded. Bulldozers and graders prepare the ground for a missile battery. Marines install a radar-guided antiaircraft missile system. Marines operate the system and fire its missiles.

Location(s)
Camp Pendleton (Calif.); 29 Palms (Calif.)

Camera crew
Photographic Section, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Filmed between May 28 and June 5, 1959.

Division
1st Division


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
1100

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
07/05/2023

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

Digital runtime
30:32

Digital file type
video/H264