USMC 109019: NATO Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding

Item Description
Title
USMC 109019: NATO Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding

Citation information
USMC 109019: NATO Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding. (012-16-70-78; R-53-61; 10-1954.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/3746

Marine Corps Library Number
8874-16

Additional identifiers
012-16-70-78; R-53-61; 10-1954

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 109019

Decade
1970

Date
1978-09

Description
Marines participate in NATO training exercise, Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding. CH53 helicopter fly overhead. Aerial views document the USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7) underway. LVTP7s move travel over roads and cross fields. LVTP7 crewman sit with machine guns. M60 tanks park and travel over a gravel beach. Marines board and disembark a beached LCM, move on hardtop roads and in fields. A Marine refuels a pickup truck.

Location(s)
Eutin (Germany); Fehmarn Island (Germany)

Camera crew
Gibson; Robinson; Maloney

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Filmed throughout September 1978

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
02/24/2023

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

Digital runtime
11:36

Digital file type
video/H264