USMC 103969: Air delivery at New River

Description: Item Description Title USMC 103969: Air delivery at New River Citation information USMC 103969: Air delivery at New River. (2D-16-208; R-2-2.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 01/1441 Marine Corps Library Number 2551-16 Additional identifiers 2D-16-208; R-2-2 MIRC inventory no. USMC 103969 Decade 1950 Description Air delivery at New River, likely filmed in the late 1940s to early 1950s. Marines load loading ramps onto a truck. Trucks, one loaded with a 105 mm howitzer and another loaded with a weapons carrier, sit on the side of the road. Marines back a truck loaded with a weapons carrier to the fuselage of a R4Q of VMR-252. A maintenance crew secures rockets and bombs to SBDs of VMF-225. Marines parachute supplies out of a R4Q and a SBD. Marines known to be in the film: Bauer, SBD pilot. Content related to USMC 103966. Location(s) New River (N.C.) Camera crew Unknown Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Documentary Film date (note) Likely filmed in the late 1940s to early 1950s. Division 2nd Division Air Wing 1st MAW 3rd MAW Air Group MAG-25 MAG-13 Squadron VMR-252 VMF-225 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 159 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 5/26/2021 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye. Digital runtime 4:25 Digital file type video/H264