USMC 103231: ""With the Marines at Tarawa""

Item Description
Title
USMC 103231: ""With the Marines at Tarawa""

Citation information
USMC 103231: ""With the Marines at Tarawa"". United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
03/719

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 103231

Decade
1940

Date
1943-11-20

Description
Official film of the United State Marine Corps' Combat Camera crews provides the footage for this wartime documentary about the Battle of Tarawa. Multiple Marines regiments are included: 2nd, 8th, 6th, 10th and 18th as well as the 2nd Tank Battalion.

Location(s)
Tarawa Atoll (Kiribati)

Camera crew
Norm Hatch; Obie Newcombe; John Leopold

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed between November 20th and 24th, 1943. Released March 1944.

Division
2nd Division


Regiment
2nd Marines
8th Marines
10th Marines
18th Marines


Battalion
2nd Tank Battalion


Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Reversal: Positive

Original physical length
700

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
10/02/2018

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

Digital runtime
19:29

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II