USMC 101995: Flight activities on USS Cape Gloucester

Description: Item Description Title USMC 101995: Flight activities on USS Cape Gloucester Citation information USMC 101995: Flight activities on USS Cape Gloucester. (AVN-16-187; R-5-5.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 01/317 Marine Corps Library Number 1026-16 Additional identifiers AVN-16-187; R-5-5 MIRC inventory no. USMC 101995 Decade 1940 Date 1945-08-10 Description Carrier activities aboard USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109) off Okinawa. Shows men jettisoning wreckage from an F6F fighter plane from ship. Catapults for F6Fs are set up on deck, and F4Us land. Sailors muster on deck as Adm. Durgins pins medals on Lt. Col. Yost, Lt. Vogelaar, and Lt. Doyle. Capt. Dudley shown giving presentation and consulting maps. Location(s) Okinawa Camera crew Rubalcava; J. S. August Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Conflict (combat) Film date (note) Filmed August 10th-27th, 1945. Air Wing MAW-2 Air Group MASG-48 MCVG-4 Squadron VMF-351 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 320 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 08/31/2019 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye. Digital runtime 8:50 Digital file type video/H264 Keywords World War II