WWII - Color, 1943, Tarawa: Landing, Beach Fighting, Bombing, Dead

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - Color, 1943, Tarawa: Landing, Beach Fighting, Bombing, Dead Two planes making low passes; heavy black smoke rising. MCU amphibious spotter plane overhead. 10:38:41 Marines dug in; loading & firing mortars on beach. Rifle marking dead Marine; another rifle w/ plasma bottle attached. Marines advance past heavily damaged buildings, take cover. Other move thru building remains. 10:39:47 LVT along beach. Heavily burning building w/ black smoke & flames. Chickens. Marines running. 10:40:18 Pan bodies on beach at water’s edge. Marine infantry w/ rifles at base of tree. 10:40:32 LS towards shore from landing craft w/ smoke & explosions; past heads in landing craft toward shore & others. Planes bombing beach. 10:41:47 CU wisted wreckage; Marines w/ dmaged tank & throwing grenades at pillbox. Firing rifles. building burning. Marine carrying machine gun; ammunition crates. Much activity along beach. Pan smoking wreckage. LS Two marines chasing Japanese . Marines running. 10:44:10 LVTs onto sand; plane overhead seen from landing craft offshore. Landing craft leaving ship from above. 10:44:42 Bomb exploding from close by; flames. Views of bombs from landing craft 10:45:38 Marines in landing craft towards shore w/ flag in edge of frame. VERY GOOD color. Pacific War; WW2; Horrors of War; Landing; Fighting; Operation Galvanic; Death; 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