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Marine Corps Activity at Henderson Field Guadalcanal

Reel Number: 220829-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942

Country: Pacific,Solomon Islands

Location: Guadalcanal

TC Begins: 18:07:52

TC Ends: 18:19:00

Duration: 00:11:08

Marine Corps Activity at Henderson Field Guadalcanal MS-CU Group of men pose for camera holding Japanese flags, Japanese trophies guns etc., Col. Carlson . Various shots different marines. CU Tattoo Bulldog wearing tin hat and inscription re US Marines. 18:08:44 Natives in line CU faces 18:09:16 GV Col. Carlson in camp, jeeps, etc. Ammunition dump, F4F fighter plane nosed over, boxes unloaded from rafts. Japanese coastal defence gun. 18:11:05 Men march across bridge, beach scene, Palm trees - MS LCVP & rhino unload, natives handle gasoline drums GV-MS Henderson field, flight strip, officers look at map MS-CU B-17 taxis, in flight over palm trees. 18:14:03 Men weld & lay pipe lines. 18:14:16 MS Marching Japanese prisoners; evacuating wounded on stretchers. Pan Beach scenes, men board LCs, leave beach - SV. Japanese prisoners in compound . Troops in LC waving to camera as pulls away. Boarding landing craft various shots 18:16:36 MCU Col. Carlson and group of officers, men with Japanese souvenirs. 18:17:07 Truck pulls 1000 lb. bomb train, ammo. dump-SV. MS Men handle, load supplies. Top shot harbour area. Soldier looking through huge binoculars - Japanese anti aircraft gun Pacific War

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