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US Marine Corps, Cape Gloucester Landing (Jan44)

Reel Number: 220811-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Chile,New Guinea,Pacific,Papua new Guinea

Location: bismarck archipelago,cape gloucester,new britain

TC Begins: 18:23:12

TC Ends: 18:31:37

Duration: 00:08:25

US Marine Corps, Cape Gloucester Landing (Jan44) AV from plane flying over airstrip under construction w/ trucks & troops. AV landing craft on very small island. Landing on grass strip. Light plane overhead 18:24:15 VS Jeep pulled & Marines moving along sandy beach & forested shoreline. Waves hitting troops and Jeep. Troops lay barbed wire & preparing tank. CU and MS troops marching through swamp. CU tired marines. 18:28:39 Camouflaging tank. Troops setting up artillery position on shoreline, machine gun firing. Marines pass dead Japanese on beach w/ CU corpse. Marines beating undergrowth. Marine setting up alert device on barbed wire. Camouflaging tank. WWII; Pacific War.

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