WWII - Color, 1945 Documentary: With The Marines At Tarawa

Titles. 03:01:02 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. 03:03:10 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 03:05:53 Landing, wading ashore & consolidating beach positions under fire. Fierce battle, 03:06:40 Treating wounded on beach w/ blood plasma. Troops moving up; wounded carried; chaos; machine guns firing, smoke, wounded on beach. 03:08:12 Hand grenades thrown; flame throwers; mortars. Approach bunker & throw grenades; flame throwers. 03;10:03 Corpses; wounded marines. 03:10:44 Firing at stalled amphibian occupied by Japanese machine gunners. Direct hit. 03:10:55 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. 03:13:07 Amphibians tow in supplies. Chaplains’ assistants tend the dead. Generals Holland Smith & Julian Smith. Adm. Harry Hill. Bulldozing buried Japanese pillboxes. 03:14:01 First Japanese prisoners. Wounded evacuated to hospital ship. 03:14:34 Dead marines littering beach, float in water. Burial at sea. Salute fired. 03:15:20 Stripping Japanese POWs to check for concealed weapons. Tending wounded Japanese. 03:16:17 Marines wash w captured Japanese water; Japanese weapons & equipment incl. captured English Vickers guns. Japanese command post. 03:16:54 Seabees building airstrip. 03:17:19 First planes land, pilots welcomed. Relief troops arrive; flag raising & salutes. 03:18:36 Marines leaving Tarawa. WWII; WW2; Horrors of War; Pacific Battles; 1944; NOTE: Good Color but scratches printed in. Any continuous ten minutes sold at one reel price.