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TBF Shot Down; Landing Craft; D+8 - D+10, Invasion Of Iwo Jima, Feb 28 - Mar 1 1945
About this film
Naval Photographic Center film #8557. Film's slates not mentioned in the description below: RF VanDerVeet D+10 Time 0930 Roll 83 Iwo Jima 3d MarDiv TBF Just shot down over enemy lines and which fell in oures JB Fellows Roll #51 Time 1200 Date D+8 Unit 3d Pioneer BN 3MD OP III Phase II The Operation - Dumps JB Fellows Roll #52 Time 1300 Date D+8 Unit 3d Pioneer BN 3MD OP III Phase II The Operation - Dumps Rolls 51 & 52 show Dumps of 3d Mar Div as of D+8 for: 1. Rations 2. Water 3. Fuel 4. Ammunition BN Ordnance Officer for 2nd BN 12th Marines checking ing out [illegible] On Map finger points to 1. Beach Black 2. Airfield #1 3. Dump areas On map 2 finger shows 1. Beach black 2. Airfield #1 D+9 - 0930 Shots of some of the landing craft breached and wrecked on the beach JB Fellows Roll #54 Time 1400 Date D+9 Unit 3d Pioneer BN 3MD OP III Phase II The Operation - Unloading LST with LFTs - 1330 Disregard last slate. "Cats" hold bow lines of LCT to keep her from breaching while unloading. Last scenes shows pallets that have been broken open. Beachmaster & crew directs boat traffic at beach. National Archives description: "1) MS Crashed TBF burns on beach, tank approaches BG SV. 2) GV Supp…
Directors & creators
United States. Navy
Subjects
WWII, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Navy, World War II, United States. Marine Corps, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island, Avenger (Fighter Plane), Landing Craft -- United States, USS LSM-261, United States. -- Marine Corps -- History -- World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American, USS LST-715, Iwo Jima, Battle Of, Japan, 1945, USS LCT(6)-1300, USS LCT-1318
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