Reel Number: 221613-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1943
Country: Kiribati,Solomon Islands
Location: betio,Guadalcanal,Pacific,tarawa
TC Begins: 12:37:23
TC Ends: 12:43:24
Duration: 00:06:01
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The Tarawa Operations R5 of 5 Damaged equipment in place; radar antenna & signal lights largely destroyed. Connected bunkers seen covered w/ sand. Bulldozer cleaning up emplacements. Main command post of heavy concrete heavily damaged. Offshore observation posts & defenses shown. Large anti-boat mines. 12:41:00 LVT-2 craft stranded on shore & in water. Tanks on shore. Shallow tank ditch. Other Japanese weapons, tanks, trucks etc inspected. 12:42:34 Airstrip w/ damaged planes. 12:43:00 Marines moving past to leave island. The End. WWII Pacific; 1943; Tarawa Invasion Aftermath; WW2; NOTE: Battle fought 20-23Nov43