USMC 111075: Gallant Eagle '86 warfare training

Item Description
Title
USMC 111075: Gallant Eagle '86 warfare training

Citation information
USMC 111075: Gallant Eagle '86 warfare training. (012-16-013-86.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/6678

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
012-16-013-86

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 111075

Decade
1980

Date
1986

Description
Marines participate in Gallant Eagle '86 combat exercises in the California desert. A convoy of various vehicles travels across a desert road. Marines move a "Czech hedgehog," setup barbed wire fencing, and make other preparations in the desert. Various aircraft, including CH46 Sea Knights, sit or taxi on an airfield. A tank lowers its gun. Marines load and fire a howitzer under camouflage netting.

Location(s)
California

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Filmed between July and August 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
745

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
07/21/2023

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

Digital runtime
20:59

Digital file type
video/H264