With the Marines at Tarawa (1944)

Directors

Louis Hayward

The story

Most of the film is in full color and it uses no actors, making it a valuable historical document. The documentary showed more gruesome scenes of battle than other war films to date. Marine Staff Sergeant Norman Hatch, armed with a .45 caliber pistol and a Bell & Howell hand-cranked Eyemo camera, captured 35mm film footage as near as 15 yards away from the enemy during combat.

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