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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1282-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1943
Country: Kiribati,USA
Location: gilbert islands,Pacific,tarawa
TC Begins: 11:41:20
TC Ends: 11:48:40
Duration: 00:07:20
WWII - 1943, Pacific: Tarawa, Gilbert Islands Post Invasion w/ Japanese & Korean Prisoners & Dead. CU Heavily damaged Japanese coastal gun on island of Tarawa; pan area, heavy wreckage of trenches & dugouts. 11:42:02 HA MS Marine in a foxhole shaving. LS Large group of marines on edge of an airstrip, around an F6F-3 aircraft. LS Landing craft on beach at Tarawa in lagoon; wrecked Japanese boats along beach w/ many marines. LS Into lagoon showing various types of small craft underway. LS Coastline showing USN landing craft along beach. LS Marines w/ packs & small guns run along dock. MS Marines walk away from camera on pier. MCU Marine on stretcher given plasma. MCU Marines stand & sit on beach; ammo crates stacked nearby. 11:43:27 Smoking wreckage; explosion among palm trees next to a building. MS Group of marines in trenches; battered palm trees and wreckage nearby. Marines moving across sand & toward vehicles moving around. MCU Marines resting in a Japanese bunker. 11:44:08 Group of captured Japanese prisoners of war, half of them naked, sit on beach guarded by marines. MCU Marines carrying boxes, are adrift in water, to beach. MLS Korean POWs carry wounded & supplies along road while Marines guard. 11:44:47 MS Japanese & Korean POWs, searched & guarded. HA Wounded Japanese or Koreans lying on stretchers, a prisoner looking on. MS Captured Japanese & Koreans squat on beach. Small tractor hauling captured torpedo on dolly up beach. CU Japanese prisoners squatting on beach. 11:45:37 MS Marine wading thru lagoon towards pier; PAN from marines to another part of beach showing LVTs on beach, some get underway. 11:45:55 MS Marines build bunkers & put sand bags up on beach. Marine lying in trench resting; others take a break, talk & sit down. Two men man machine gun in foxhole. MLS Beach area w/ Marines milling about building foxholes, carrying supplies, etc, 11:46:39 LS Fire in a building among palm trees. HA CU Japanese dugout w/ several dead Japanese. MCU Marines look down into bunker w/ dead Japs. CU Dead Japanese lying next to his bunker. 11:47:15 MCU Marine posing w/ two rifles in his hand. LS Fire & smoke among buildings in palm trees on beach. PAN beach area showing activity during Tarawa landing. 11:47:43 MCU Major General & a Colonel on beach next to truck talking; aircraft in BG. Pose, MCU. 11:48:16 MCU Two USAAF enlisted men talk w/ two Army nurses. MCU General Smith boards B-24. WW2 Pacific Battles; Landing Aftermath; NOTE: Same as H1282-08. USE much better quality H1282-08.