USMC 103944: Artillery and meteorologists on Okinawa

Item Description
Title
USMC 103944: Artillery and meteorologists on Okinawa

Citation information
USMC 103944: Artillery and meteorologists on Okinawa. (3AC-16-213; R-1-1.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/960

Marine Corps Library Number
2509-16

Additional identifiers
3AC-16-213; R-1-1

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 103944

Decade
1940

Date
1945-05-14

Description
3rd Battalion artillery and meteorologists work on Okinawa on May 14-16, 1945. Marines answer phones and plot field of fire on artillery map. A Marine plots locations on a map of the Pacific theater. Marines use survey instruments to measure the ground. Meteorologists release weather balloons.

Location(s)
Okinawa

Camera crew
R. W. Miller

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed May 14-16, 1945.

Division
III Amphibious Corps


Battalion
3rd Battalion


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
188

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
5/19/2021

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

Digital runtime
5:14

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II