USMC 113015: ""Now It Can Be Told""

Item Description
Title
USMC 113015: ""Now It Can Be Told""

Citation information
USMC 113015: ""Now It Can Be Told"". (MN 5883.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
BY

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
MN 5883

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 113015

Decade
1940

Date
1945

Description
War worker incentive film highlighting the U. S. Navy shortly after Victory in Europe was declared. Narrator presents ""your ship"" the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-6) as it sails with a task force from May 15, 1944. The task force includes five destroyer escorts: USS Pillsbury (DE-133), USS Chatelain (DE-149), USS Pope (DE-134), USS Flaherty (DE-135) and USS Reuben James (DE-153). The Guadalcanal successfully captures a German U-Boat intact (U-505) on June 4, 1944.

Location(s)
Unknown

Camera crew
Industrial Incentive Division; U.S. Navy

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
B&W

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Release print

Original physical length
600

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
04/24/2025

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

Digital runtime
16.31

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II