WITH THE MARINES AT TARAWA
1944 · National Archives and Records Administration (via FedFlix)
Finding US Government work
The record names a federal body as the creating agency: Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. US Marine Corps. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act).
The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate.
- Creating body, as recorded
- Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. US Marine Corps
- National Archives Identifier
- 37448 (local identifier 127-MH-3527)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.37448 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
The record
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National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 37448 / Local Identifier 127-MH-3527 - WITH THE MARINES AT TARAWA - Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. U.S. Marine Corps. (09/18/1947 - ). Reel 1, Marines clean machine guns and attend religious services aboard transports at sea, climb into landing craft which head for shore, wade through the surf protected by naval, and aerial bombardment, consolidate beach positions, move inland, and care for wounded. Reel 2, a landing craft is hit. Mortars are fired and Japanese infantry flushed from dugouts. Marines and tanks move up. Gen. Smith inspects positions. Wounded Marines are loaded on a ship and the dead buried at sea. Japanese POW's are searched and given first aid. Construction on an airstrip is begun; a plane lands and the pilot congratulates Marines. DVD copied by IASL Master Scanner Timothy Vollmer.