Reel Number: 221020-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1942
Country: Pacific,Solomon Islands
Location: Guadalcanal
TC Begins: 16:51:12
TC Ends: 16:59:54
Duration: 00:08:42
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US Marines on Guadalcanal Troops advancing and natives carrying supplies through hilly fields. Men in dugouts. Military funeral with palm leaves over graves; bugler and chaplains at altar, troops watching. 16:55:12 Three officers consult map; CUs. VS landing on Pacific island beach early in war per helmets? and unloading crates of supplies w/ natives; battleship offshore. 16:57:37 Group of Marines - Lt. Col. Carlson’s ‘Raiders’ - posing for camera & waving; show guns and munitions; pretend to shave with sword for joke; show Japan flag - from released PoWs? Col. Carlson and other. Troops embark on landing craft back to ship. Others wait on beach or advance in line across island. WWII. Pacific War.