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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. |
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Information: 1945 BW (6 reels = 55 min) |
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APPOINTMENT IN TOKYO
REEL 1 (10:04 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
WWII, Japanese objective Island of Corregidor in the Philippines. Point of view looking down barrel of artillery piece as shell is loaded. Artillery bombardment of Island, Japanese troops land on Corregidor and accept General Wainwright surrender. American flage taken down and Japanese flag is raised. Shows Bataan death march. American industry and labor converting from non-essentials of peace to weapons of war. Unloading planes, tanks, and American troops in Australia. Planes of the American 5th Air Force attack Japanese naval task force in the Bismarck Sea, smoke from damaged and sinking ships. |
| This battle opened the way to Island hop toward Japan. Shows General MacArthur and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz. Night naval bombardment and aerial bombing followed by amphibious assault. Maps of American battle plans to take islands. More Images of General Douglas MacArthur on-board a ship. Bodies of hundreds of dead Japanese soldiers. White crosses with dog tags mark graves of U.S. Soldiers. U.S. Soldier kneels at one of the cemetery crosses. Planes being launched from aircraft carrier. Maps show battle plans as Islands were taken by forces under Command of Fleet Admiral Nimitz. |
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APPOINTMENT IN TOKYO
REEL 2 (10:24 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
Ships of an American Task Force underway in the Pacific , Shots of sailors in a shipboard radio room. Plotting board shows new objective, change course to the Philippines. Shipboard officer briefs troops on landing at Leyte. Shows shipboard church services, sailors with heads bowed in prayer. Flasback to staging area, Joe shaving with no where to go, soldier drink first beer in nine months, soldier playing accordion. Soldiers on troop transport ships reading, sleeping. |
| Plane makes night landing on aircraft carrier. Naval bombardment of area near Leyte in the Philippines. Rocket ship firing rockets. Captured Japanese films show Japanese tanks and soldiers waiting for assault boats to land. First wave of assault troops hit the beach and the Japanese open fire. American soldier plants American flag. Americans troops dig in. Japanese firing artillery. Heavy fire on the beachhead. Shows U.S. troops moving off the beach into the jungle. Close-up soldier firing rifle. Soldiers duck as sniper fire is heard and tosses grenades. U.S. Soldier uses flamethrower. Bodies of dead Japanese soldiers. |
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APPOINTMENT IN TOKYO
REEL 3 (8:09 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
Shows captured of wounded Japanese soldier and natives surrendering. General MacArthur at GHQ on beachhead directing battle. Japanese General Yamashita was determined to hold Leyte at all costs and called for re-enforcements from other islands. Captured enemy film shows Japanese soldiers climbing down cargo nets into small landing boats. American heavy artillery pounds Japanese positions. U.S. Troops advance behind a tank. Ships of the Japanese Navy appeared, the first naval battle was fought at night. |
| Land based Japanese fighters and bombers re-enforced their sea strength. American ships fighting off Japanese planes. Shows many Japanese planes cartwheeling through the sky into the sea. Carrier based planes landing on unfinished airstrip when American carriers damaged and on fire. Shows wreckage and Japanese survivors floating in ocean. Aerial view of beachhead after battle. U.S. Troops march in mud, eat in mud, rest in mud, sleep in mud and wounded evacuated over the mud. Life for civilians under the Japanese is described as brutal, schools closed, harvest stolen. Shows Japanese prisoner of war camp on Luzon. |
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APPOINTMENT IN TOKYO
REEL 4 (9:27 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
The largest convoy in the history of the Pacific on way to Luzon. The American 6th Army land on the Lingayen Gulf of Luzon and were met by cheering Philippine natives that reported the Japanese had pulled back. Shows Filipino guerrillas receiving army clothes and weapons. Ground controller directing planes on bombing runs. U.S. Troops fight their way up each hill. Hand picked guerrillas and a company of Rangers go behind enemy lines to free American prisoners held at Cabanatuan. Shows the few that finished the Bataan Death March. More American were in prison in Manila. U.S. Troops and tanks fighting in Rizal Stadium, heavy street fighting in Manila business district. |
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APPOINTMENT IN TOKYO
REEL 5 (9:08 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
The retreating Japanese set fire to City of Manila. Shows people fleeing as flames engulfed the town. Shows civilians executed by the Japanese. American machine gun team in building firing across the Pasig River. Tanks and artillery fighting. American troops cross Pasig River in small boats and fought street by street and into the walled fortress of Intramuros. American soldiers gives a child in bed a drink of water. Civilians are led across the river. American paratroopers jump from C-47's and land on Corregidor Island as U.S. troops land on the beach. 12-days later Corregidor is once again in American hands. Brief scenes of General MacArthur arriving at a dock on Corregidor. |
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APPOINTMENT IN TOKYO
REEL 6 (7:08 min) HD: $449.00 | NTSC: $349.00 | PAL: $399.00
A soldiers promise has been kept as General MacArthur salutes the American flag as it is raised over the Philippines, American flag is raised by Marines on Iwo Jima and the American flag was raised over Okinawa. American battleships bombarded Japan as B-29 Superfortress Bombers dropped their loads of bombs on the homeland of Japan. Brief image of atomic explosion. The last beachhead, Japan. General MacArthur arrives aboard his plane, Bataan, in JapanHe was met by General Eichelberger Commander of The 8th Army. |
| 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 huge cheering crowd in New York City as news of the surrender of Japan spreads. |
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