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African American units U.S. 769th Field Artillery, 761st Tank Battalions, and other units in action in European Theater during World War II
U.S. 769th Field Artillery and the 761st Tank Battalions, as well as other African American units battling enemy together with other Army units in the European Theater during World War 2. Tanks advance along a rough terrain. Soldiers run across a field. Column of African American soldiers of 370th Infantry march along a road toward an attack in the Po Valley, supported by the 695th Field Artillery, who are seen loading and firing an artillery piece. African American soldiers of 761st Tank Battalion running interference for the 409th Infantry as it is seen crossing the dragon's teeth of the Siegfried Line in March of 1945. U.S. Army tanks fire at enemy targets on a field. Soldiers advance. African American soldiers of 761st Tank Battalion loading shells into a tank near battlefield and then participating in battle, firing from tanks during battle. Close view of African American soldiers with their tanks, and firing rifles.
Units of United states 14th Corps capture Clark Field as they advance toward Manila, Philippines, during World War II
American troops in their drive toward Manila, in 1945, during World War 2, pass several knocked out and burning Japanese Type 89 Chi-Ro tanks. A dead Japanese soldier, shot dead while trying to commit suicide, lies on the ground with an undetonated hand grenade in his mouth. U.S. M4A2 sherman III tanks and infantry of the XIV Corps moving on the Lingayen Plains Philippines, leading to the capital, Manila. U.S. armor towing artillery ford a stream, as they pass beneath framework of an apparently unusable bridge. A battery of U.S. M101 105mm Howitzer artillery pieces is set up and bombards the Clark Field area. One striking shell produces an explosion, fire and column of black smoke. U.S. troops ride forward atop tanks. Glimpse of one soldier with flamethrower tanks on his back. American tanks firing their guns. Destroyed Japanese aircraft on the ground. A soldier using a mine detector to sweep the area. He signals to another soldier who comes to probe the area with a long knife. Next a soldier is seen standing in a hole dug around a bomb Placed nose up under the ground by the Japanese. Soldiers pull it from the hole, using a rope. U.S. soldiers walk in area full of similar holes and bombs pulled from them. General Douglas MacArthur is seen, on January 26, 1945, walking among remains of Japanese aircraft at Clark Field. He visits the Filipino cemetery at Camp O'Donnell, which was a prisoner of war camp, considered the terminating point of the Bataan Death March, where some 20 thousand Filipinos and almost 2 thousand Americans died during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. MacArthur is seen standing by a large Christian Cross monument, and walks among untended graves marked with small wooden crosses. The Mount Pinatubo volcano is seen on the horizon in the background. MacArthur and those accompanying him walk around a large monument containing a placard written in tagolog. U.S. soldiers start a mortar barrage against Japanese forces dug in on "Hill 70." Infantrymen move through trees and brush to flush out the entrenched enemy. Glimpse of type of improvised device made of explosives and gasoline, that U.S. soldiers are using to drive Japanese troops out of their fortifications. As a soldier watches with binoculars, the camera records several of these devices exploding with great force. Glimpse of a dead Japanese soldier on the ground. U.S. troops ride atop an M18 Gun motor carriage of the 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion, as it crosses a river. American tanks and infantry moving cautiously across a bridge as shells explode ahead of them. Tanks firing at Japanese troops entrenched in hillside above a road. Large numbers of American infantry marching along a road accompanied by tanks. Areas around them burning from fires set by retreating Japanese forces.
African-American WACS pass in review before Major Charity Adams and General John C H Lee during World War II.
During World War 2, African American women soldiers of the Women's Army Corps (WACS) stand in formation at a parade ground in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, during a formal military review on February 15, 1945. The women are from the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed “Six Triple Eight, which had just arrived in Birmingham. The WACS' commanding officer, Major Charity Adams, stands beside General John C.H. Lee. The African-American female soldiers of the WACS march in a column, eight deep, passing by General John CH Lee and Major Charity Adams, who salute the soldiers. Other male officers stand on the review stand behind officers Lee and Adams. Note: Major Charity Adams (Charity Edna Adams; later Charity Adams Earley) was the first African-American woman officer in the WACS, and, at the end of the war, then Lieutenant Colonel Adams was the highest ranking African-American woman in the United States military.
Surrender of Japan, ending World War II; imprisoned Japanese officials; German concentration camp scenes
View of first atomic explosion (Trinity) on July 16, 1945, at New Mexico, United States. View of the battleship, USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay, Japan, with entire ship's company on deck in dress whites, Japanese military high command and several formally dressed Japanese diplomats standing on the ship's deck. Brief closeup of General Douglas MacArthur. Japanese foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, bending to sign the instrument of surrender ending World War 2, on September 2, 1945. Supreme Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, seated, signing the document. Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright and British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival stand behind MacArthur. General Hsu Yung-chang signs for China. View of sailors observing the historic moment from every possible place aboard the ship. Large numbers of aircraft flying over the ship. Scene shifts in flashback to Manila, Philippines, where dead bodies of civilians litter the streets in silent witness of Japanese wartime atrocities. Some have hands tied behind their backs. Views of destitute Filipino mothers and children wandering through the rubble. A sign identifies the 98th Evacuation Hospital. Inside, a doctor and a nurse stand over the bed of Japanese Prime Minister, Hideki Tōjō, who attempted suicide by pistol, when apprehended, but was taken for treatment and is seen resting in his bed. View of Japanese Adrmiral Shigetarō Shimada, Minister of the Navy, behind bars in prison. Also seen in prison are Japanese general of the Japanese Imperial Army and Governor-General of the Philippines, Shigenori Kuroda;. General Masaharu Homma; and militarist Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Scene shifts to bodies of numerous victims of German death camps. American Army medics attend to some survivors rescued from the camps.
Filipino Luzon Guerilla Forces (LGAF) in Cagayan Province, 1945
Enrile Elementary School in Cagayan Province, Philippines, being used as a headquarters for Filipino Luzon Guerilla Forces (LGAF). A sign on blackboard read: "Silence, Guardhouse." A guard at the entrance gate. A Filipino guerilla, with a package in hand, walks in through the gate and reports to an LGAF officer at a desk on the porch . He points out intelligence information on a map spread on the desk. The officer seated at the desk places the intelligence information in an envelope and gives it to another LGAF guerrilla, who leaves on horseback to deliver the information to friendly forces. A field in view. A wooded region. Smoke rises from areas in the wooded region. A water buffalo in the field.
Runup to Yokohama War Crimes Trial of Kuroda and others; Clips of Trial of General Yamashita in Manila 1945 (WW2)
First part deals with World War II Allied war crimes trials of Japanese defendants in detained in Omori Prisoner of War Camp in Tokyo, Japan. Soldiers unload luggage from the back of a truck in Omori Prisoner of War Camp. Captured Japanese generals bring their luggage to prison camp. Sign reads “XI Corps Stockade #2 Omori P.O.W. Camp”. 8th Army Chief General Clovis E. Byers and Lieutenant Colonel Salvi, Commandant of Omori, talking to each other. Japanese military officials in Omori Prison Camp include Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, Commander Shigemori Kuroda, General Masaharu Homma and Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Second part is Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita on trial for war crimes in Manila, Philippines. Few Military soldiers talk to each other at a camp. Few views of Japanese Generals under trials for war crimes. General Yamashita brought for the trial. General Yamashita enters a court in Manila for the trial. An interior view of the trial court. General Russel Burton Reynolds presides the trial session. General Yamashita sits on a chair at his trial. A member of the trial court reads a document. Lawyers give their points during the session. General Yamashita is taken out after the trial session in court.
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