WUSTL Film and Media Archive

Title Work

Title No: 4798

Title: With the Marines at Tarawa

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Film

Date: 1944 (Release)

Original Summary:

Documentary depicting the battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific Island of Tarawa. [Internet Movie Database]

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 19 min

Forms: Short

Genres: Documentary; War (Nonfiction)

Subjects: Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Kiribati.

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Director	Hayward, Louis
	Narrator	Lundigan, William
	Production Company	United States Marine Corps Photographic Unit
	Distribution Company	Universal Pictures Company.
	Distribution Company	War Activites Committee-- Motion Picture Industry

Notes:

Sources Used: Internet Movie Database, Academy Awards lnterent Database

Items ^x1

	Item	Description
	4798-1	Video Tape : U-matic

Contained By ^x1

	Title No	Title
	4769	Reporting America at war [stock footage]

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