USMC 110867: ""Foothills, PHIBLEX 1-60""

Description: Item Description Title USMC 110867: ""Foothills, PHIBLEX 1-60"" Citation information USMC 110867: ""Foothills, PHIBLEX 1-60"". (CMC 3-59.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 13/4703 Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 Additional identifiers CMC 3-59 MIRC inventory no. USMC 110867 Decade 1950 Date 1959-05-28 Description In this ""Technical Film Report,"" the 1st Marines Expeditionary Force conducts an amphibious landing exercise demonstrating rapid deployment of an antiaircraft unit, dubbed Foothills 1-60, as part of Operation Twin Peaks, PHIBLEX 17-59. Loading operations entail Marines, with the help of Navy personnel, driving prime movers, twin missile carriers, and other vechicles aboard USS Polk County (LST-1084) and USS Russell County (LST-1090). An LCM pushes a temporary causeway onto the beach. Bulldozers anchor the causeway's cables on the beach and build a a sand ramp. Marines construct a wire mesh surface matting for the causeway. USS Tioga County (LST-1158) and USS Snohomish County (LST-1126) approach the causeway with the help of LCMs. Marines attach the ships to the causeway before vehicles are unloaded. Bulldozers and graders prepare the ground for a missile battery. Marines install a radar-guided antiaircraft missile system. Marines operate the system and fire its missiles. Location(s) Camp Pendleton (Calif.); 29 Palms (Calif.) Camera crew Photographic Section, Camp Pendleton, Calif. Genre Documentary Film date (note) Filmed between May 28 and June 5, 1959. Division 1st Division Item collection United States Marine Corps Film Repository Original color B&W Original audio Sound Original gauge Film: 16mm Original generation Positive Original physical length 1100 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 07/05/2023 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5K Digital runtime 30:32 Digital file type video/H264