Reel Number: 220810-04
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1943
Country: Kiribati,Pacific
Location: betio,gilbert islands,tarawa atoll
TC Begins: 16:26:49
TC Ends: 16:35:05
Duration: 00:08:16
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WWII - Color, 1943, Tarawa: Marines During Assault & Japanese POWs. Nov-Dec43 Large group of Japanese PoWs guarded by US Marines; some only w/ tops, others bottoms 16:28:27 Offshore island w/ plumes of smoke. Battle for Tarawa, Nov43. 16:29:52 US Marines talking/ questioning Japanese. Landing craft on beach surrounded by debris, dead Marines in water. Dead Japanese. Unloading landing craft. LS beach crowded w/ supplies and troops. Destroyed gun emplacement. Burning landscape, trees stripped of greenery. 16:33:04 Burned corpses. Burning jungle. LS explosions on beach head. Pacific War; WW2; Prisoners of War; Horrors of War;