World War 2 Invasion IWO JIMA In Color “Glamour Gal”
Produced in 1945, “Glamour Gal” is a documentary film about the eponymous large artillery gun and the ten Marines who work her, “a team of eleven”. The film follows Glamour Gal and her escorts from the time she ships off through her service on Iwo Jima. Life for the artillerymen aboard ship is depicted as monotonous, as they are, for the moment, “simply passengers” with little to do except read old magazines and brag about their girlfriends. However the monotony is broken once the captain announces that they are approaching their destination, Iwo Jima, described as “some rock in between the devil and the Dutch East Indies”.
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