United States troops land on Luzon from Lingayen Gulf, Philippines during World War II. Battleships at sea. A map shows the target area of the ships. Troops land on the surface. Happy Filipino guerrillas and civilians gather to greet them. Soldiers in Jeeps. Filipino men hold the United States flags in hand. Filipino guerrillas are given clothes and arms. A United States soldier helps a Filipino guerrilla put on a new shirt. Filipino guerrillas receive new weapons. United Sates soldiers ride a cart pulled by a carabao. Men and children march with flags. Houses along the sides of the street. Trees in the background. Infantry advances rapidly through town. People watch the soldiers. Soldiers in a field during the war. Smoke arises from bombardment in the mountains of Luzon. Ground soldiers and sky soldiers work together. Airplanes drop bombs on the field. Soldiers discuss a map. They discuss plans for the operation.
U.S. paratroopers of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment (511th PIR), 11th Airborne Division, conduct a combat parachute drop to reinforce American troops engaging Japanese forces at Tagayatay Ridge, on Luzon, the Philippines, in World War 2. View from inside a C-47 transport aircraft, looking through its open rear door, at another C-47 taxiing on an airfield ramp. It displays "X44" stenciled below its cockpit. Brief aerial view of the airfield from an airplane overhead. Several C-47s seen flying in formation. Closeups of some C-47s. Next, paratroopers of the U.S. 11th Airborne Division are seen jumping from C-47s. Their chutes open rapidly after leaving the aircraft. Some of the chutes of troopers, jumping from aircraft forward of the camera plane, pass very near as they descend. Aerial view looking upward at parachutes descending with clouds behind them. Glimpse from cockpit of camera plane shows numerous parachutes deployed from C-47s some distance ahead. Closer view from below and left of three C-47s shows paratroopers exiting open aircraft doors. More parachutes seen from above, as they descend. View from C-47 cockpit of five others in formation, at the same altitude,ahead. Below them, dozens of parachutes are seen descending toward the ground. Inside a C-47, several troopers stand at the open rear door and one helps another jump from the plane. Several paratroopers passing the right wing of the camera plane as they descend.
General Joseph W Stilwell arrives. Soldiers of 11th Airborne Division march. General Stilwell salutes as he reviews the parade. (World War II period).
United States Sixth Army Rangers in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines during World War II. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Walter Krueger and staff arrive at parade grounds. Other men standing in far background. A flag fluttering from a flagpole. Lt. Gen Krueger and the staff salute. He awards the Sixth Army Rangers.
United States Army soldiers in Norzagaray, Bulacan, Philippine Islands during World War II. Commanding General of the 43rd Infantry Division Major General Leonard F Wing, British Army Liaison Officer Lieutenant General Charles H Gairdner, Commanding General of the Sixth U.S. Army General Walter E Krueger, and Commanding General of the XI Corps Major General Charles P. Hall talk. They stand at a ridge overlooking the Ipo Dam in Norzagaray, Bulacan near Manila, Philippines. An officer looks at a map and points towards a location.
The United States campaign against the Japanese in Luzon, Philippines during World War II. An Allied convoy of ships underway in the Pacific Ocean towards the Lingayen Gulf. Naval guns fire at the coast and at Japanese airplanes. U.S. Army Generals Walter Kruger and Douglas MacArthur keep a watch over the convoy of ships. General MacArthur and other officers come ashore at the Lingayen Gulf. Troops unload equipment at a beach. Infantrymen advance inland. The Filipinos greet the soldiers as they advance towards Manila. The soldiers with the Filipinos. People cheer as the American soldiers enter Manila. Animated map of the Philippines depicts the location of the Lingayen Gulf and the advance of American soldiers from the Lingayen Gulf to Manila.