USMC 101236: Guam maneuvers 1945

Item Description
Title
USMC 101236: Guam maneuvers 1945

Citation information
USMC 101236: Guam maneuvers 1945. (3D-16-88; R-3-5.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/1534

Marine Corps Library Number
0466-16

Additional identifiers
3D-16-88; R-3-5; V.1

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101236

Decade
1940

Date
1945-02-05

Description
Training on Guam. Officers, including Adm. Nimitz and then-Maj. Gen. Erskine, observing artillery firing shells towards targets and planes dive bombing. Col. Kenyon, commander of the 9th Regiment, also watches. Adm. Nimitz is photographed.

Location(s)
Guam

Camera crew
Walter Franklin

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Division
3rd Division


Regiment
9th Marines


Battalion
1st Battalion
4th Battalion
12th Battalion


Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
400

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
03/13/2019

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

Digital runtime
13:02

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II