USMC 104664: Cape Gloucester Reel II

Item Description
Title
USMC 104664: Cape Gloucester Reel II

Citation information
USMC 104664: Cape Gloucester Reel II. United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
04/879

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 104664

Decade
1940

Date
1944-01-14

Description
LtCol J.E. Weber (C.O. 1/7) holds plasma while corpsmen attend to a wounded Marine. 105mm Howitzers (11th Marines) fire a mission. Wounded are brought out of dense jungle and loaded onto transport. A heavy weapons company tends its equipment and displays a captured Japanese flag. A tracking shot from atop a vehicle in the surf shows Marine encampment at the water's edge. Aerial views show beachhead with a damaged wharf. More views show the airfield under repair and improvement as well as the 1st Marine Division cemetery recently laid out with two rows of graves. Marines improve defensive positions with barbed wire and heavy weapons. Marines take fire from Japanese positions located on Hill 660. They return fires with light machines guns and light armor. Col Julian N. Frisbie (C.O. 7th Marines) seeks cover. 7th Marines are relieved after 21 days of combat. Damaged landing craft piled ashore. A review of Japanese emplacements on Hill 660 overlooking Borgen Bay and then a Marine O.P. Survey of area include Japanese dead. Marines are shown moving off beach and onto transports.

Location(s)
New Britain (Papua New Guinea)

Camera crew
Carter, Arthur S. (Lt); Monteverde, A.F.

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed over throughout the Cap Gloucester Campaign January 1944.

Division
1st Division


Regiment
7th Marines


Battalion
1st 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
850

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
04/28/2022

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5k

Digital runtime
25:25

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II