WWII - Color, 1944, Documentary: With the Marines At Tarawa

Titles. 10:20:22 Marines embark, ships underway. Destroyer DD-607 bringing orders. Troops briefed with large relief map of Tarawa. Marines clean machine guns, exercise & attend religious services aboard transports at sea. 10:22:33 Dawn. Troops climb into landing crafts, naval bombardment. Guns firing, explosions, planes strafing, ships guns firing. Landing craft underway. Japanese beached ship, planes diving bombing 10:25:23 Landing, wading ashore & consolidating beach positions under fire. Fierce battle, 10:25:54 Treating wounded on beach w/ blood plasma. Troops moving up; wounded carried; chaos; machine guns firing, smoke, wounded on beach. 10:27:58 Hand grenades thrown; flame throwers; mortars. Approach bunker & throw grenades; flame throwers. 10:29:25 Corpses; wounded marines. 10:30:00 Firing at stalled amphibian occupied by Japanese machine gunners. Direct hit. 10:30:14 Commanding officer talking w/ staff on beach. Firing mortars. Burning, black smoke. Marines in fierce battle, sharpshooters, move forward. Tanks & troops move up airstrip & wounded removed by jeep. 10:32:27 Amphibians tow in supplies. Chaplains’ assistants tend the dead. Generals Holland Smith & Julian Smith. Adm. Harry Hill. Bulldozing buried Japanese pillboxes. 10:33:22 First Japanese prisoners. Wounded evacuated to hospital ship. 10:33:55 Dead marines littering beach, float in water. Burial at sea. Salute fired. 10:34:40 Stripping Japanese POWs to check for concealed weapons. Tending wounded Japanese. 10:35:34 Marines wash w/ captured Japanese water; Japanese weapons & equipment incl. captured English Vickers guns. Japanese command post. 10:36:14 Seabees building airstrip. 10:36:38 First planes land, pilots welcomed. Relief troops arrive; flag raising & salutes. 10:37:56 Marines leaving Tarawa. WWII; WW2; Horrors of War; Pacific Battles; 1944; NOTE: Good Color but scratches printed in. Sell any continuous ten minutes at one reel price.