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Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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Available in High Definition formats: (48 hr. turn-around)
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keywords: philippine islands, bataan death march, new guinea, leyte gulf, macarthur returns, surender, battleship missouri |
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Synopsis: The war in the Pacific from 1942 with Japan attacking Corregidor through 1945 with the formal surrender ceremony on the U.S. Battleship 'Missouri' and celebrations breakout in America... (read more) |
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Information: 1945 55 min BW |
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Scenes Include:
Japanese troops land on Corregidor, Philippine Islands, in May 1942. General Wainwright surrenders. Excellent footage of captured Americans on the 'Bataan Death March'.
U.S. planes bomb and sink Japanese ships in the Bismarck Sea, March 1943 General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz meet. U.S. troops land on New Guinea. Maps U.S. advances on New Guinea and islands occupied from Pearl Harbor to the Palaus.
Shows U.S. troops resting in staging areas, a convoy at sea, and the assault boats (landing craft) landing on the Leyte beneath a naval bombardment. Captured film shows Japanese troops and defenses during the barrage. U.S. troops and tanks advance through the jungle under constant enemy fire. Enemy film shows Japanese reinforcements landing on Leyte.
A naval and aerial battle rages in Leyte Gulf and the Philippines Sea. Disabled U.S. planes land on aircraft carriers and on Leyte landing strips. An enemy submarine is demolished and survivors picked up. U.S. troops advance through jungle mud. Wounded are treated at an aid station.
Mitchell bombers blast Luzon. Troops land on Luzon from Lingayen Gulf unopposed. Filipino guerillas are given clothes and arms. Infantry advances rapidly through towns. A patrol liberates U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war. A skirmish rages in a baseball stadium outside Manila.
U.S. troops advance street by street in Manila's outskirts. Artillery shells Manila proper. Troops cross in rowboats. Flamethrowers and grenades are used to dislodge the enemy from a fortress inside the town. Street by street fighting. Filipino refugees cross the Pasig River and return to rubbled homes. Paratroops jump from C-47's onto Corregidor. General MacArthur lands on the island with infantry units.
MacArthur is greeted at a Tokyo airport by General Eichelberger. The Japanese surrender on board the battleship Missouri. MacArthur directs the proceedings. Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezo sign for Japan; MacArthur for the Allied Powers; and Admiral Halsey for the U.S. Other personages: General Wainwright; British General Arthur E. Percivall.
Footage of hugh cheering crowd in New York City as news of the surrender of Japan spreads.
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