USMC 111017: Exercise Gallant Eagle '86

Item Description
Title
USMC 111017: Exercise Gallant Eagle '86

Citation information
USMC 111017: Exercise Gallant Eagle '86. (Q12-16-13-86; #79.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/6727

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
Q12-16-13-86; #79

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 111017

Decade
1980

Date
1986

Description
Footage from Exercise Gallant Eagle '86, conducted at Fort Irwin and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California (specific locations in film are not known). CH46 Sea Knights land on an airstrip near UH1 Hueys. Soldiers are seen in the desert, boarding a CH46 and loading a jeep into the helicopter, and firing howitzers under camouflage. Vehicles move through the desert.

Location(s)
29 Palms (Calif.)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Filmed between July 25 and Augst 3, 1986.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
750

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
07/19/2023

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

Digital runtime
22:18

Digital file type
video/H264