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In an interview in the US, Lieutenant General Ira Eaker talks about problems faced by soldiers during World War II.

An interview of United States Air Force Lieutenant General Ira Eaker conducted by Dr. Maurer in the United States. General Eaker talks about problems during World War II. He says that the aircraft were very crude, they were having limited range and other limitations. Other problems were also there. In the Philippines they realized that they should be able to do bombing. But they were not having any bombs.

Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077139
Life of General Douglas MacArthur; training of the Philippine Army; leading Allied troops against Japanese forces (WW2)

General Douglas MacArthur is appointed Chief of Staff, with rank of full General, in 1930. United States troops marching with the American flag. General MacArthur with two French military officers, during a tour of Europe. He is decorated by French Officials. MacArthur visits Germany and inspects German troops. U.S. President Roosevelt reappoints MacArthur as Chief of the Staff. MacArthur speaking to an audience in Washington DC. Scenes of MacArthur's headquarters in the Philippines. Filipinos walking outside MacArthur’s office. MacArthur at his office in the Philippines with Eisenhower at his side. MacArthur talks on the telephone. Flags of the United States and the Philippines. Filipino troops marching at Fort Santiago inside the walled city of Intramuros in Manila. MacArthur supervises the creation of a Philippine Army. Philippine Army cadets perform outdoor calisthenics and attend a meeting. Philippine Army cadets train in knife fighting. Japanese planes drop bombs over the Pearl Harbor. Japanese bombardment of the Philippines during World War II. View of Corregidor Island. Soldiers on Corregidor load and fire artillery at the Japanese. U.S. soldiers in the Bataan peninsula. Face of MacArthur superimposed over a montage of American factory workers manufacturing ammunition and military vehicles. Start of the Bataan Death March. PT boat carrying MacArthur leaves Corregidor. War equipment prepared in factories. A battleship underway to Australia. MacArthur in Australia. U.S. convoy moves towards Japanese held islands in the Pacific. Allied soldiers land on the islands. A soldier lands on a beach and raises the American Flag. MacArthur points to the Philippines on a map and discuss war strategy. In accordance with the plan key positions in the Pacific are attacked. MacArthur looks on as United States soldiers land on the islands. MacArthur while smoking a pipe inspects the landing of Allied soldiers on islands behind heavy bombardment. Amphibious tractors land on the beach of Palo, Leyte. Allied paratroops make a landing. United States troops sail on rubber boats towards the beach of Palo, Leyte. Paratroopers on parachutes landing in Leyte. MacArthur confers with Allied Commanders. Allied troops walk past a destroyed Bahay Kubo nipa hut. Japanese soldiers are taken as prisoners in the Philippines.

Date: 1945
Duration: 7 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033586
General MacArthur speaks on Philippine Independence Day

Filipinos attend the proclamation of Philippine independence ceremony in Manila as the United States grants independence after World War 2. Smiling crowds of Filipinos in attendance. A Filipino boy watches the ceremony while holding a hotdog on a stick, a common snack brought under American influence in the Philippines. View of the Independence Grandstand (a temporary structure built in front of the Rizal Monument) in Manila with American flag and Philippine flags on tall flag poles. United States General of the Army Douglas MacArthur gives a speech during the Philippine Independence ceremony. “with this ceremony, a new nation is born. A nation conceived in the centuries-old struggles of people to attain the political liberty to embark upon its own national destiny.” Says General Douglas MacArthur. Filipino women with umbrellas watching MacArthur’s speech. Map of the Philippines. Filipinos smiling. View of Jones Bridge, on the riverbanks of the Pasig River, connecting to the Binondo Chinatown district in Manila. The Philippine National Bank (PNB) in Escolta Street, the historic financial district of Manila. Heacock’s Department Store, selling American appliances such as Remington, with various Manila billboards such as “ASIA LIFE”, “Elizade & Co Inc. Tanduay Distillery” and “Goodrich”. The old Legislative Building (now the National Museum of the Philippines). View of the Port of Manila. Men offloading crates of sugar and hemp to be exported to markets abroad, particularly in the United States. A ship sailing away from the Port of Manila. Factory smokestacks emitting smoke. Filipinos in steel and petroleum plants. Filipinos building a vehicle on an assembly plant. People at the Philippine Legislative Building entrance. Filipinos in panic, running for shelter, after air raid siren sounds. Evacuating people board a crowded bus. Japanese bombing of Manila. Japanese tanks with soldiers enter into Manila, prominently flying the Japanese flag. Japanese soldiers wade through water on a coast, climb a steep hill. Smoke in battlefield.

Date: 1946, July 4
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079149
Film showing sights and scenes unique to the Philippines in Manila and Mindanao

Film to inform U.S. military personnel about customs and culture of the Philippines. A statue of a buffalo in Luneta Park (Padre Burgos Ave 1000 Manila City of Manila Philippines), a historic urban park in the Philippine capital of Manila. A map of the Philippines. A sign reads 'Congress Republic of Philippines' in the neoclassical Philippine Congress Building (currently as the National Museum of Fine Arts Manila). View of the Manila Cathedral, one of the foremost Roman Catholic Cathedrals in the Philippines. Modernist stained-glass window depicting Christian values in Manila Cathedral by the Filipino artist Galo Ocampo. An outdoor Filipino modernist sculpture. Religious statues depicting Moses holding the Tablets of the Law, the Virgin Mary and a male saint in Manila Cathedral. View of the Taluksangay Mosque in Zamboanga City, Mindanao. A mosque in Mindanao. Filipinos walking on a busy street. A couple walks in a garden. Boys play along a street.

Date: 1971
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078051
Young men and women on dance floor in the 1960s.

Four women, three white and one black, drink together at a club in the 1960s. A group of men notice the four women in the club. Men dancing with the women together on the dance floor. African-American couple dancing. A man wackily dances with a woman. Legs of dancers on 1960s dance floor. Young men and women having fun on the 1960s dance floor of a club. Mixed race black and white couple dancing 1960s dance floor. A man with his arm over a woman sitting in booth. Man rubs two dice on his hands before throwing them on a craps table. Man frustrated to see dice of three on craps table. Narrator notes, "sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose."

Date: 1967
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079699
U.S. assistance to the Philippines and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (WW2)

A film about events leading up to the independence of the Philippines, and about U.S. presence and assistance to the Philippines before the Japanese occupation. Philippine students perform calisthenics. Children being taught in a primary school. Teachers assist and instruct students. University of the Philippines (UP) students conduct experiments in a laboratory. Protecting U.S. Naval ships at a port, including the U.S. Destroyer USS Barker (DD-213). Line of U.S. Martin B-10 light bomber aircraft of the 4th Composite Group parked on an airfield, and then head-on image as a Martin B-10 bomber takes off toward and then up over the camera. The flag of the United States. Filipino soldiers march. U.S. Army General Douglas Macarthur at a desk in the Philippines accompanied by Dwight Eisenhower. A sign reads 'Camp Dau' in Dau, Mabalacat, Pampanga. Newspaper headlines about the American surrender in Corregidor in May 1942 during World War II. Japanese soldiers take down the United States flag after their victory in Corregidor. Surrendering commander Wainwright and other American officers look on. Japanese occupying forces parade in the Philippines.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078027