USMC 101124: Okinawa boxing and 100,000 rounds

Item Description
Title
USMC 101124: Okinawa boxing and 100,000 rounds

Citation information
USMC 101124: Okinawa boxing and 100,000 rounds. (1D-16-125.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/251

Marine Corps Library Number
0164-16

Additional identifiers
1D-16-125; V.1

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101124

Decade
1940

Date
1945-6-16

Description
Boxing matches on Okinawa. Marines check weapons, fight, and the winner receives a Japanese statue. This is followed by scenes of 81mm mortars (5th Marines) and pack howitzers firing on Kunishi Ridge. The 1st Battalion, 11th Marines commemorate their 100,000 round fired.

Location(s)
Okinawa; Iejima (Okinawa Islands)

Camera crew
W. A. Spangler; Paul Peters (SSgt)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed June 16th and 17th, 1945.

Division
1st Division


Regiment
5th Marines
11th Marines


Battalion
2nd Battalion
1st Battalion


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
350

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. For further information please contact Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
01/30/2019

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye.

Digital runtime
11:07

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II