WWII - Color, 1945, Okinawa: Marines & Officers Aboard USS Anscon & Landing Views. Mar-Apr45

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - Color, 1945, Okinawa: Marines & Officers Aboard USS Anscon & Landing Views. Mar-Apr45 POV from LCP / landing craft personnel w/ others circling & heading to shore w/ numbers visible (PA 207-9) etc. thru very heavy waves. 10:58:06 Inverted end slate (illegible). 10:58:14 Convoy of ships in column w/ camera ship gun barrel raising in stormy waters. 10:58:32 Slate: “19Mar45 Camera: Kempe. Naval Convoy Gun Fire.” MS Pan from Marine commander (Rear Admiral Jerauld Wright?) speaking to seated & standing troops on deck & back. 10:59:24 Slate: “29Mar45 Camera: Kempe. Briefing Aboard USS Ancon. Invasion of Okinawa Shima.” Convoy, LCPs towards shore w/ island visible from AGC-4. 11:00:30 Slate: “01Apr45 07:30 Camera Kempe. Roll 2. Movement of convoy - burning LST, small boats - ships shoreline of Okinawa”. LSs, explosions on shore smoke rising. MCU officers, including 3 star General, on AGC-4 bridge talking, looking w/ binoculars. 11:03:04 Slate: “ 01Apr45 09:30 Maj. General Wa?? (Walter?) Capt. H.Q. W...USN Adm. Gerald Wright; Capt. H.D. W, Lt. Gen Thomas Watson, Adm Wright. White Ack-ack / flak from shipboard. LCP leaving towards shore in formation. MCU helmeted men at ship signal light & telescope. 11:04:21 Slate: 02Apr45 08:30-?? Roll 3 Camera: Kempe Jap Dive bomber LCVP heading for departure line. Silhouette of signalmen. 11:04:30 Large gun, small ships following. Marine officer seated in ??reading. 11:05:44 Slate: 02Apr45 09:40 Camera Kempe. Roll 6 . “Line of PC boats. Adm. Gerald (sic) Wright studying dispatches. WW2; Operation Iceberg; Decoy Force; NOTE: USS Ancon originally built at ocean liner, converted to troop ship & commissioned as AGC-4; went to Pacific w/ Amphibious Group 5; to Eniwetok w/ TG 51.2 & to Ryukyus / Okinawa on 27Mar45 w/ Transport Squadron 15. NOTE: Slates describe preceding scenes. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. USEFUL Color & action. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk