USMC 102431: Marine activities on USS Cape Gloucester

Description: Item Description Title USMC 102431: Marine activities on USS Cape Gloucester Citation information USMC 102431: Marine activities on USS Cape Gloucester. (AVN-16-167; R-2-6.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 01/1160 Marine Corps Library Number 1382-16 Additional identifiers AVN-16-167; R-2-6; v.1 MIRC inventory no. USMC 102431 Decade 1940 Date 1945-07-10 Description Marines receive and give awards on deck of USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109). Sailors, including Richards, raise church flag. Shots of convoy signaling and leaving Okinawa, including USS Saint Louis (CL-49) and USS Salt Lake City (CL-25). Destroyers fire at island. F4Us are catapulted off deck, and Lt Vogle of VMF-351 gets out of F4U after shooting down Japanese plane. Location(s) East China Sea; Okinawa Camera crew J. S. August; DeRycke Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Conflict (combat) Film date (note) Filmed July 10th-23rd, 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 328 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 10/19/2019 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye. Digital runtime 9:00 Digital file type video/H264 Keywords World War II