USMC 102228: Flight activities on USS Block Island

Description: Item Description Title USMC 102228: Flight activities on USS Block Island Citation information USMC 102228: Flight activities on USS Block Island. (AVN-16-98; R-3-3.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 01/697 Marine Corps Library Number 1244-16 Additional identifiers AVN-16-98; R-3-3 MIRC inventory no. USMC 102228 Decade 1940 Date 1945-05-06 Description Flight activities on USS Block Island (CVE-109). F4Us, TBMs, and F6Fs land on deck and are moved around. Tractor driver is Pfc. Maurice Settler. Rear Adm. Calvin T. Durgin and pilot Capt. F. Massie Hughes talk on deck with Maj. Robert D. Maze. Cpl. Roy W. Brown, 1st Lt. Gilbert Royer, and Cpl. Bernard T. Chupka talk and look at situation map. Sgt. John Refi sleeps on wing of F4U. Mail is transferred via buoy line with USS Edmonds (DE-406). Sgt. Charles Hulse, Sgt. Earle J. Schmidt, Sgt. Paul A. Redd, Sgt. Charles L. Hopkins, and Cpl. Douglas E. Babbitt work on planes. Location(s) Okinawa Camera crew Moriarty; E. Veith (SSgt) Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Conflict (combat) Film date (note) Filmed May 5th and 9th, 1945. Air Wing MAW-2 Air Group MASG-48 MCVG-1 Squadron VMF-511 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 390 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 10:17 Digital file type video/H264 Keywords World War II