Reel Number: 221539-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: Burma
Location:
TC Begins: 00:23:30
TC Ends: 00:30:48
Duration: 00:07:18
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WWII Burma w/ Merrill’s Marauders, ca 30Apr44 Pullng down parachute cover from front of hut. Leaving thatched huts; gathering at side of clearing w/ gear. 00:24:35 Leading pack horses across river; others wade across w/ rifles. Natives carrying litter up hillside, wounded soldier in litter & men carry down past camera. Parachute covering & men under eating. Wounded tended w/ plasma in shade of parachute. Medics. 00:26:25 Jungle & men, pack horses move out. Mortar set up & sighted. Men carry ammunition to mortar. Firing mortar. Riflemen shooting. 00:28:36 Grenades launched. MCU Marine sniper shooting, moves up. Find Japanese (?) machetes. 00:29:43 Slate. Putting wounded on litter & carrying thru jungle. Covering dead, burial ceremony. Digging grave. WWII Pacific; Jungle Fighting; 1944;