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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1270-04
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1943,
Country: Japan,Kiribati,USA
Location: gilbert islands,Pacific,tarawa atoll
TC Begins: 12:21:19
TC Ends: 12:30:16
Duration: 00:08:57
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - Color, 1943, Tarawa: Convoy at Sea, Marines Landing, On Shore & Flag Raising. LS aircraft carrier silhouetted on horizon w/ sunset behind. Convoy underway after sunset Sunset behind clouds. 12:22:05 Daytime, Destroyer & APA underway in mid foreground; pan across convoy. 12:22:38 Shoreline from water w/ small boats or tanks on sand; plane overhead; large burned out ship beached. Pan across destroyer & landing craft, other ships. 12:23:38 Radioman working radio landing craft, view of other LCVPs following; planes low over water. 12:24:10 CU Marine yawning, smiling. Ships on horizon. 12:24:54 Lifeboat & coiled lines hanging above. Pan ships. 12:25:17 Shoreline w/ Marines in water, LCVPs, hulk of beached ship. LCVPs to shore from behind & beside Marines in water. 12:26:26 Splash from bomb exploding 12:26:37 Men ashore carry ?? Troops standing / pose beside British flag. 12:27:05 Raising US flag; British flag raised to top of tall palm tree. Marines saluting. 12:27:57 LS of landing craft, shoreline from landing craft. Good color 12:28:54 Beach bivouac area. Fires burning Japanese structures; tank mired in water at shoreline. Pan sunken equipment offshore, US Marine floating on back near barbed wire beach barrier. Others floating in & out along the shore w/ the waves. OIl fire burning. Dead soldiers in sand & water. 12:30:08 Destroyed building, chickens loose w/ Marine trying to catch (brief). Pacific War; WW2; Horrors of War; NOTE: Battle of Tarawa largely fought 20-23Nov43 & was first American offensive in the region. Sell at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk