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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1372-01
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: Japan,Northern Mariana Islands,USA
Location: Mariana Islands,Pacific,Saipan
TC Begins: 12:00:11
TC Ends: 12:10:55
Duration: 00:10:44
WWII - Color, 1944, Saipan, Marianas: POV Tanks; Invasion Briefing on Ship; Tanks Advance POV from slit window inside tank, following other tanks thru jungle. Tank in front: Joker. Line of tanks toward camera. 12:00:51 Broken tank tread. POV from in tank of burning ?? in woods; POV from stopped tanks, others stopped in road beside native cart, marine walking. POV looking across field, smoke from firing view of other tanks & marines moving forward. Heavy smoke above jungle ridgeline. Explosions in front of tank. POV tanks moving & sitting on road. GOOD. 12:02:51 Overhead & level shots of officers & sailors on ship; briefing. CU sailor w/ aerial photograph of shoreline. Officer pointing to relief map of Saipan showing shallow water; CUs. Men looking. 12:05:13 Not useful. 12:05:34 Slate: D-w Photo. Sgt. Tim R. Orton 12:05:38 Overhead view of briefing, officer relief map & photograph . Pointing, talking, CUs. Pilots listening. CU looking at paper map. 12:08:12 POV from tank thru slit window, past natives & marines on road; in field firing. ?? burning in front w/ heavy black smoke. 12:09:20 Marines advancing on building, tank parked & being worked on; reloading ammunition from LVT to tanks. Pan hillside w/ heavy smoke beyond immediate ridge. 12:10:00 View across farmland; pan ships anchored offshore. Row of tanks parked on hillside field. MCU marines sitting on ground beside tank WW2 Pacific Islands Marines; Military; Fighting; Invasion Planning;