The opening title card reads:The picture you are about to see is authentic in every detail. No scenes have been re-enacted or staged.
The card reads:This picture is dedicated to the officers and men you are about to see making the first landings on the Jap held island of New Britain: Particularly to those who now lie beneath the wooden crosses marking the road to Tokyo.
It is always difficult to judge whether a movie is in the public domain. At least one site that shows public domain films makes this movie available to its users. Goodtimes Video, which distributes public domain and copyrighted movies (but more of the former), has released it on DVD.
