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intriguing glimpse of history,
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This DVD has two "propaganda" films. "With the Marines at Tarawa" was released in 1944 and won an academy award in 1945 for best short documentary (according to Wikipedia). The film is all real, although carefully edited to not shock the public too badly. Even so, it has enough gruesome footage to have been a concern at the time. I find it fascinating to see what the public was seeing at the time. The second film on the DVD (not mentioned on the box at all, for some strange reason) is a Navy documentary about the battle for Guam. It's not nearly as good as the Tarawa film, but again, interesting as a glimpse of what the public was seeing. There is some surprising (for the time) footage of natives beheaded by the Japanese for such infractions as looking happy when a Zero crashed offshore. As long as you understand that these are government-released films, with the limitations that implies, they're intriguing glimpses of what the public was seeing in 1944/45.
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I ordered this for my friend who, believe it or not, does not use computers. His father was there at Tarawa. He is quite pleased with the purchase.
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