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The Philippines gains independence from the United States on July 4, 1946

The Philippines are established as an independent nation. Crowds of Filipinos gathered at Rizal Park (Luneta Park) in Manila on the July 4, 1946. View of Independence Grandstand (a temporary structure built in front of the Rizal Monument) with American flag and Philippine flags on tall flag poles.. View looking down on General Douglas MacArthur at a podium, speaking into microphones. Camera pans over various segments of the audience. A map shows the Philippine Islands in context of its neighbors in the Pacific Ocean. Camera pans closeup across faces of many Filipinos gathered at the independence event. View of the Jones Bridge over the Pasig River in downtown Manila. Heacock’s Department Store on the Escolta.The Legislative Building. (later the National Museum of the Philippines). Ocean going ships in a harbor. Cargo being offloaded from a ship onto smaller boat. An industrial complex with eight tall smoke stacks emitting smoke. Steel and petroleum plants. Filipino workers in an assembly plant. The Legislative building with people coming and going. Air raid sirens sounding and people running in streets of Manila at onset of Japanese invasion of the Philippines in December, 1941, at start of World War 2, in the Pacific.People running across the Jones Bridge, seeking shelter. Others boarding a bus. Smoke rising from Japanese bombing. Glimpse of Japaese tanks entering Manila. Japanese infantry climbing a hill. Bodies of persons killed during the Japanese invasion. Glimpse of Japanese troops occupying Corregidor. U.S. General Wainright negotiating the surrender of Corrigidor with Japanese General Homma. View of an American warship firing during the U.S. campaign to defeat the Japanese on islands in the Pacific. An American landing ship carrying U.S. troops who storm ashore. General Douglas MacArthur striding ashore with a retinue of officers, at Leyte, Philippines, on October 20, 1944. as he keeps his promise to return to the Philippines. Views, back again, to MacArthur speaking at the Independence Day ceremony in Manila on July 4, 1946. Also seen at the ceremony are: U.S.Senator Millard Tydings, (co-sponsor of the 1934 Tydings–McDuffie Act, which provided independence to the Philippines after a 10-year transition under a limited autonomy), and Paul V. McNutt, U.S. High Commissioner of the Philippines, who read President Truman's proclamation of Philippine Independence to the assembly. Camera pans over the gathering which includes many U.S. Service personnel in uniform. The oath of office is administered to the elected President of the Philippines, Manuel Roxas. At the conclusion, the American flag is lowered by Paul McNutt, as President Roxas raises that of the Republic of the Philippines. A celebratory parade in Manila includes a float with signs reading: "Let's Produce and Rebuild," among other things. Other floats represent "Mountain Province," and "The City of Manila," "The University of the Philippines," and "The Division of City Schools." One float, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, contains a huge replica machine gear, and models of an aircraft and a ship. It's message is about turning the gear that helps make the nation great. American and Filipino soldiers march, carrying their respective national flags. A white-helmeted military band plays for the marchers. Final scene shows large loose formation of military aircraft in flight very high above the Independence Grandstand, at Rizal Park.

Date: 1946, July 4
Duration: 5 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038746
U.S. Navy aircraft takes off for attacking Vietnamese torpedo boats and sailors fire from USS Maddox in the Pacific Ocean.

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident during the Vietnam War. A flag of U.S. Navy. U.S. Navy soldiers parade. Aircraft being parked on the deck of aircraft carrier. Animated map shows the route of U.S. Destroyers (DD) on Gulf of Tonkin. A destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) underway in the Pacific. General Quarter on the DD sounds. The U.S. Navy men run and take their positions on the ship. The ship crewmen take their position on the deck guns. A sailor looks through a binocular. Two officers on a bridge of USS Maddox. One of them looks through the binocular. A tower on the ship. A U.S. Navy sailor loads shell and fires with a gun. Several views of the sailor loading shells and firing. U.S. Commander Robert Warhart describes what he and his pilots did during the attack against Vietnamese torpedo boats. USS Turner Joy (DD-951) underway in the pacific. The U.S. sailors wearing headphones at controls. North Vietnamese patrol boats strike against the U.S. destroyers. The White House in Washington DC. The crew members pull the bombs on a small elevator. They load the bombs in the aircraft. The ship crew members work under the wings of the U.S. Navy aircraft. The pilots seated in a room before taking off. An officer with the help of a wall map briefs pilots about the attack. A pilot gets into a cockpit. Another one stands on a ladder. The pilot closes the canopy. A signal officer gives signal. The aircraft taxi one after the other and take off for the attack on Vietnamese patrol boats. USS Turner Joy and USS Maddox underway in the Pacific.

Date: 1964, August 2
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069696
United States Secretary of Navy Charles Thomas on board St. Paul ship in the Pacific Ocean during an inspection.

United States Secretary of Navy Charles Thomas inspects 7th Fleet in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Alfred M. Pride and Vice Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll don their Mae wests on the deck of United States St. Paul ship in the Pacific Ocean. A U.S. Navy HUP-2 helicopter in the background. The U.S. Secretary of Navy Charles S. Thomas poses. United States Tolovana ship underway in rough seas along side St. Paul. Secretary Thomas with officers on the bridge of the ship. A heavy wind blows. Secretary Thomas with Captain Bringle, the Secretary's aide, on the bridge of the ship. Secretary Thomas and Vice Admiral Pride talk on the signal bridge of the St. Paul. The Secretary speaks to a sailor. Vice Admiral Ingersoll and Pride talk to Secretary Thomas on the signal bridge of the ship. Secretary Thomas and Vice Admiral Ingersoll shake hands on the signal bridge of the ship.

Date: 1955, December 16
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042862
United States Secretary of Navy Charles Thomas aboard United States ship Bennington in the Pacific Ocean.

United States Secretary of Navy Charles Thomas during inspection of U.S. Navy 7th fleet in the Pacific Ocean. Plane director on the deck of a United States ship Bennington as he signals to the helicopter. A ship underway in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Korea. Aircraft lined up on deck of the ship. Men move towards the stern of the United States ship St. Paul. A sailor helps Secretary Thomas with a Mae West on the deck of the ship. Sailors salute the Secretary. Secretary Thomas boards HUP-2 helicopter and it lifts off.

Date: 1955, December 16
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042866
USS Hancock CV-19 underway and few aircrafts take off from the deck in the Pacific Ocean during Project Steam Catapult.

Deck activity aboard USS Hancock CV-19 in the Pacific Ocean during Project Steam Catapult. USS Hancock CV-19 underway in the Pacific Ocean. Few aircraft take off from the deck of the USS Hancock CV-19. Few men on the deck. Catapult in the background.

Date: 1954, September 12
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055332
U.S. F3D Skyknights lands on the deck of USS Hancock CV-19 in the Pacific Ocean during Project Steam Catapult.

Deck activity aboard USS Hancock CV-19 in the Pacific Ocean during Project Steam Catapult. U.S. F3D Skyknights lands on the deck of USS Hancock CV-19 in the Pacific Ocean. Few men stand on the deck. Few men run across the deck.

Date: 1954, September 15
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055335