At the The National Museum of the Marine Corps located in Triangle, Virginia, there is an Academy Award on display. While many Hollywood actors played the role of a Marine, this Oscar was won by real Marines filming Marines doing Marine things. The 1945 Oscar for best documentary film went to… the envelope please…
“With the Marines on Tarawa”
Where did the Combat Camera crews learn to make a movie? In the Marines.
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