Battle of Tarawa in World War II
Title: "1942-45, Battle for the Pacific Islands" superimposed on silhouetted Americans carrying a comrade on a stretcher / An American battleship / VS men on their knees during a Catholic mass / Massive guns firing / VS combat at Tarawa with men running though the devastated island, and a machine gunner behind sandbags / Marines fire at fleeing Japanese soldiers; numerous explosions with flamethrowers / American dead on a beach / A young American displays his helmet with a bullet hole / Solemn Marines pass a grinning man and trudge past the camera / An American flag is raised on a palm trunk as men salute / Note: exact day not known





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Editorial #:
1092676276
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
November 01, 1943
Upload date:
License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore information
Clip length:
00:01:26:16
Location:
Kiribati
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr003466_01_03.mov
- Tarawa,
- World War II,
- 1940-1949,
- Accuracy,
- Adult,
- American Flag,
- Archival,
- Army Soldier,
- Artillery,
- Battleship,
- Beach,
- Black And White,
- Bullet Hole,
- Carrying,
- Catholicism,
- Composite Image,
- Conflict,
- Crisis,
- Day,
- Dead,
- Dead Person,
- Death,
- Destruction,
- Escaping,
- Exploding,
- Film - Moving Image,
- Film Composite,
- Flag,
- Flag Raising Ceremony,
- Flamethrower,
- Gun,
- HD Format,
- Healthcare And Medicine,
- Helmet,
- Hole,
- In Silhouette,
- Island,
- Japanese Military,
- Kiribati,
- Knee,
- Kneeling,
- Large,
- Limb - Body Part,
- Machinery,
- Men,
- Military Ship,
- Newsreel,
- Pacific War,
- Produced Segment,
- Real Time Video,
- Religious Mass,
- Religious Service,
- Running,
- Saluting,
- Sandbag,
- Ship,
- Shooting a Weapon,
- Smiling,
- Stretcher,
- US Marine Corps,
- US Military,
- Video with Sound,
- Violence,
- War,