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Description:

1944
Tinian Island - Suicide Cliff - 4th Marine division
1944/07 (slate says July but same Japanese interpreter features in August reels as well)
Tinian Island - Suicide Cliff - 4th Marine division
MS Japanese interpreter in civilian clothes speaking over microphone, Marines in combat dress, stand around.
MS different angle, same
LS Marines stand around interpreter
MLS interpreter speaking over microphone, officer looking out right frame with binoculars
MSHA interpreter speaking over microphone

01:16
1944/08
Tinian Island - Suicide Cliff - 4th Marine division
LS Marines searching Japanese prisoners
MS Japanese prisoners, military and civilian, pass camera
CU interpreter speaking over microphone
CU Japanese female interpreter
MS various shots of M4A3 tank firing in to the distance

03:54
1944/08
Tinian Island - Suicide Cliff - 4th Marine division
Various MSs, CUs of dead Japanese civilians who have commited suicide. Some are lying on the cliff edge, some are on the rocks and some are in the ocean.

06:40
1944/08
there is no card for this sequence on the shelf bt appears to be a gathering of various MArine officers and soldiers etc
photog: H.A Weinberger

This footage is often mistaken or used as being Saipan but clearly matches Suicide Cliff in Tinian. The