USMC 108958: NATO Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding

Description: Item Description Title USMC 108958: NATO Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding Citation information USMC 108958: NATO Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding. (012-16-70-78; R-20-61; 12-2125.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 15/3696 Marine Corps Library Number 8841-16 Additional identifiers 012-16-70-78; R-20-61; 12-2125 MIRC inventory no. USMC 108958 Decade 1970 Date 1978-09 Description Marines participate in NATO joint exercises, Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding. Marines move near LVTP7 on railroad flatcars, ride foreign passenger trains. German Leopard combat engine vehicle pushes German LCUs from beach. M60 tanks board German LCU. Marines set up M60 machine guns with blanks, aim TOW weapon from jeep, simulate preparing a grenade launcher on an M16 rifle. Marines move through Danish streets. Danish flatbed trucks carry USMC M60 tanks to railroad flatcars, M60 tanks unloaded from flatbed truck. A US commercial ship, Admiral William M. Callaghan"", underway. Location(s) Oksbol (Denmark); Eutin (Germany); Kesseldorf (Germany) Camera crew Johnson, P.E. Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Documentary 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 400 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 02/17/2023 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5K Digital runtime 11:26 Digital file type video/H264