Interview in Manila with a released internee from the Los Baños Japanese-operated internment camp in the Philippines in World War 2. A microphone is set on a tripod stand for the interview. The liberated American internee, Bob Jones, is asked what the internees did for entertainment. Jones says that everything was ersatz entertainment and that they would make things up with old boxes and bamboo. He shows how he formed and "played" a pretend trumpet with his hands, and he performs his "trumpet" rendition of Sugar Blues by Clyde McCoy.
Los Baños Internment Camp in Laguna, Philippines during World War II. Freed civilians from camp being loaded to move out from the liberated camp. Soldiers and local Filipino civilians in small banca boats. Burning barracks in camp. Internees move out. William Henry Donald, Australian newspaperman and former advisor of Chiang Kai-Shek, being interviewed by war correspondent Frank Smith of Chicago Times. Crowd of freed internees loading into LVTs (Landing vehicle tracked, also called Amtracs) of the 672nd Amphibious Battalion and driven out of the camp, headed for Mamatid, Cabuyao, Laguna.
Liberation of the Los Baños Internment Camp in Laguna, Philippines. A priest fallen in water from LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) being rescued by U.S. Army soldiers during liberation of the camp from Japanese forces in World War II. Soldiers help the internees including men, women, children, and Roman Catholic nuns get off the LVT. Crowd of freed internees on beach. Liberated internees loaded into the LVT (also called Amtracs) and trucks during evacuation.