Motion Picture MP2002-434
Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series "Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman")
Administrative Information
Footage
36 feet
Running Time
1 minute 29 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description
Harry S. Truman discusses the 12,000 lives lost at Okinawa and 4000 lives lost at Iwo Jima. Sound and picture.
Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963
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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems
Shot List
Reel 1
| 0:00 | Harry S. Truman: "That spring there was a difficulty with him (Stalin) that he had the idea that everything was his and what was ours was his too. I had made up my mind that that wouldn't happen if I could help it." | |
| 0:25 | Harry S. Truman discusses Iwo Jima, how it cost 4.000 lives "of our youngsters" in order to take it. "It was a very, very serious affair and everybody was worried what the results would be when we tried to take the main island of Japan." | |
| 0:53 | Harry S. Truman talks about the cost of taking Okinawa - 12,000 men. Noting how costly the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa had been, the experts estimated taking the main island of Japan would cost 500,000 men. "Some estimates were much higher than that." |