USMC 103384: TTU maneuvers at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base

Item Description
Title
USMC 103384: TTU maneuvers at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base

Citation information
USMC 103384: TTU maneuvers at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base. (HQ-16-98; R-16-22.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/1524

Marine Corps Library Number
2109-16

Additional identifiers
HQ-16-98; R-16-22

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 103384

Decade
1950

Description
The TTU (Troop Training Unit) was a special Naval unit mostly composed of Marines who fought in the Pacific in WWII. Marines drive a Jeep in the water and then check its engine. Footage of a turtle with the words "The big Mohae" painted on its shell. Marines with TTU helmets and armbands talk to each other. Marines disembark a DUKW and unhitch a Howitzer being hauled by the DUKW. Marines then use a crane attached to a DUKW to lift the Howitzer and place it in the bed of a DUKW and a LVT. Content related to USMC 103382.

Location(s)
Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base (Va.)

Camera crew
Olund

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Date filmed unknown.

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
346

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.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
11/14/2020

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

Digital runtime
9:38

Digital file type
video/H264