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This Film Communique Fifth Issue consists of several segments. The first, P-47s Come to Town, shows the arrival of American P-47 Thunderbolts in the European Theater, their assembly and combat role. The second, titled Two Million Dollar Hill, showing combat in Italy, with mules and men being used to deliver supplies to front line troops fighting German troops. The omnipresent mud makes it slow going. An animated short "A Few Quick Facts" shows the work of the Air Transport...
Topics: U.S. Marine Corps, Battle Of Tarawa World War II, Pacific Campaign
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Created in 1951, "Crusade in the Pacific" was an early television documentary that remains one of the most comprehensive looks at the Pacific Campaign on land, sea and air. In 24 separate 30 minute episodes, "Crusade" journals the War through tons and tons of basically uncensored stock footage, along with the timeless voice of Westbrook Van Voorhis. This episode of Crusade in the Pacific, Speeding Up the Attack: The Marshalls, looks at the Allied campaign against the...
Topics: Crusade In The Pacific, World War II, WWII, Pacific Campaign, Battle Of Tarawa, Marshall Islands
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World War II veteran Norman Hatch talked about his time serving as a cameraman for the Marine Corps. He captured footage during the November 1943 Battle of Tarawa that helped the Marines win an Academy Award for best documentary short in 1945. The National World War II Museum spoke with Mr. Hatch in 2013 for its oral history collection. This the first of a two-part interview. Sponsor: National World War II Museum
Topics: Oral Histories Norman Hatch Interview on Filming the World War II Battle of Tarawa, Television...
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World War II veteran Norman Hatch talked about his time serving as a cameraman for the Marine Corps. He captured footage during the November 1943 Battle of Tarawa that helped the Marines win an Academy Award for best documentary short in 1945. The National World War II Museum spoke with Mr. Hatch in 2013 for its oral history collection. This the first of a two-part interview. Sponsor: National World War II Museum
Topics: Oral Histories Norman Hatch Interview on Filming the World War II Battle of Tarawa, Television...
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Created in 1951, "Crusade in the Pacific" was an early television documentary that remains one of the most comprehensive looks at the Pacific Campaign on land, sea and air. In 26 separate 30 minute episodes, "Crusade" journals the War through tons and tons of basically uncensored stock footage, along with the timeless voice of Westbrook Van Voorhis. This episode of Crusade in the Pacific, "Attack in the Central Pacific: Makin and Tarawa" looks at the Allied...
Topics: The Pacific Television Program, Gilbert Islands, Battle Of Tarawa, Makin, World War II, U.S. Marine...
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This fascinating WWII film shows the campaign in the Marshall Islands in 1943-1944, with the strategic importance of the islands described — hitting the Japanese flank near the naval base at Truk and securing a line of assault in the south Pacific. The film shows American aircraft destroying Japanese shipping and cutting off Japanese bases from vital supplies, all the while diminishing Japanese air power. Japanese bases on the Marshalls were assaulted for 75 days by aircraft, from air...
Topics: Periscope Film, Stock Footage, Marshall Islands, War, Truk, Japanese Imperial Navy, Kwajalein...
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In 1943, Charles E. Oetjen was a senior at Blue Island Community High School. He left school and joined the Marine Corps prior to graduation. Killed in the Battle of Tarawa in the South Pacific, his body was never recovered... until now. After 73 years, the remains of PFC Oetjen were returned to his family in Blue Island. ------------------------------------------------- Shot & Edited by Ben Tomera -------------------------------------------------
Topics: Illinois, Blue Island, Blue Island Television, BITV, Government Access TV, Community Media, PEG,...
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Few military battles have matched the concentrated ferocity of the three-day fight between U.S. and Japanese forces in November 1943 for a sandy sliver of land halfway between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. Tarawa was an essential World War II stepping stone across the Pacific, held and heavily fortified by Japan. In what one combat correspondent called “the toughest battle in Marine Corps history,” U.S. Marines wrestled it away at a cost of more than 1,000 men. All but 17 of the 3,500...
Topics: Bud Meador, Battle of Tarawa, World War II, Marines, US Army Command and General Staff College,...
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The GCLS Veterans Interview project collected interviews from local veterans from a range of wars and asked them to talk about their experiences. Francis Xavier Lorbecki, Jr. enlisted into the Marine Corp Reserves the day after Pearl Harbor, Dec. 8, 1941. He served in the 2nd Signal Company, 2nd Marine Division FMF during WWII in Communications. His service took him to New Zealand, the Battle of Tarawa, the Gilbert Islands, the Battle of Saipan, the Battle of Tinian Island, the Mariana Islands,...
Topics: Veterans Interview Project, Veterans Oral History Project, Veterans Oral History, WWII, Marine...
