USMC 102165: 2nd Div prepares and invades Okinawa

Item Description
Title
USMC 102165: 2nd Div prepares and invades Okinawa

Citation information
USMC 102165: 2nd Div prepares and invades Okinawa. (3AC-16-254; R-1-2.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/845

Marine Corps Library Number
1164-16

Additional identifiers
3AC-16-254; R-1-2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 102165

Decade
1940

Date
1945-3-06

Description
2nd Div loads up ships and equipment at Saipan docks. Iwo Jima wounded are unloaded and brought to ambulances. 2nd Div headquarters are shown with equipment ready to go. 10th Marines load howitzers into DUKWs. As convoy is underway, smoke screen is laid. Marines have squat contest on LST. Plane hit by Japanese bomber is shown burning on Okinawa.

Location(s)
Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands); Okinawa

Camera crew
Rohde; H. D. Potter (Sgt)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed in March and April, 1945.

Division
2nd Division


Regiment
10th Marines


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
410

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
09/18/2019

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

Digital runtime
12:37

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II