USMC 100407: "Sea Power - Launch all Aircraft"

Description: Item Description Title USMC 100407: "Sea Power - Launch all Aircraft" Citation information USMC 100407: "Sea Power - Launch all Aircraft". United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no BY Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 Additional identifiers MN-8530 MIRC inventory no. USMC 100407 Decade 1950 Description Imagined scenarios of a carrier task force's role in a limited nuclear war. Narration provides an incident by incident account of the three-day operation. Carrier combat air patrol aircraft intercept incoming heavy bombers but two nuclear bombs are dropped near the task force, resulting only in minor radiation exposure to a destroyer. US forces bomb military targets with nuclear weapons. On day three, Marine amphibious forces invade. Location(s) Unknown Producing entity Reid H. Ray, Film Industries, Inc. (Production unit) Genre Public relations Film date (note) Filmed in the early 1950s. Item collection United States Marine Corps Film Repository Original color Color Original audio Sound Original gauge Film: 16mm Original generation Postive Original physical length 600 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 Unknown Digital media type Moving Image Date digital file created 04/30/2018 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye. Digital runtime 16:10 Digital file type video/H264