JUNE,1945 U.S. COAST GUARD DIGEST #2 WWII NEWSREEL PHILIPPINE CAMPAIGN, IWO JIMA 52044b (1945)
1945 · Short film · 18 min
Synopsis
U.S. Coast Guard Motion Picture Digest June 1945 No. 2 is a silent newsreel-style film of the events of World War II in May and June 1945 that involved the U.S. Coast Guard. Fully loaded Coast Guard-manned FSs (freight and supply Army ships) leave Leyte and head for northern Mindanao. The ships slowly leave Leyte’s harbor (00:33) on 8 May 1945. A monkey sits on a ladder of one of the ships. A member of the crew charts the ship’s course. The FSs arrive at the Bay of Macajalar, Mindanao. Smoke billows beyond the beach from bombs dropped on nearby mountains (02:16). USCGC Ingham serves as the communications flagship for operations off northern Mindanao (02:55); the ship sits in the harbor, and a PBY Catalina seaplane moves on the water beside the ship. A crane moves 83-foot Coast Guard patrol boats off of the Liberty near Guiuan, Philippines (03:35). Coast Guard-manned LST 21, which participated in Operation Overlord, arrives in New York City after 22 months of duty in European waters (05:00); the ship is shown sitting at a dock and members of the crew pose for pictures and read a newspaper featuring front-page coverage of the Okinawa landings. Rear Admirals L.T. Chalker and J. Pine review the cadet battalion during the Sixtieth Commencement Exercises at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on 6 June 1945 (06:52). Cadets walk across the stage during graduation. The film then shows shots of marquee boards and movie posters for To the Shores of Iwo Jima, the joint motion-picture project…
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- Running time
- 18 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
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- June
- 1945
- US Coast Guard
- USCG