USMC 104098: Marine aviators on Okinawa

Item Description
Title
USMC 104098: Marine aviators on Okinawa

Citation information
USMC 104098: Marine aviators on Okinawa. (AVN-16-59; R-3-4.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/1473

Marine Corps Library Number
2663-16

Additional identifiers
AVN-16-59; R-3-4

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 104098

Description
Activity around the Air Defense Command (ADC) on Okinawa in summer 1945 after the island was secured. A Brigadier General (possibly BGen William J. Wallace, Commander of the ADC) and an unidentified Major chat with an unidentified Army officer, who wears an aviator badge. Aircraft land at Kadena Airfield. A pilot chats with his crew chief.

Location(s)
Pacific Islands

Camera crew
Unknown

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Film in summer 1945.

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
248

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
7/1/2021

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

Digital runtime
6:54

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II