An orientation film titled 'This is the Philippines' depicts the bombing of Manila, Philippines by Japanese aircraft during World War II. Buildings along the sides of a street. Traffic on a road. Japanese airplanes bomb Manila in 1941. Damaged houses and buildings in the area. Smoke rises due to the bombardment. Several buildings set on fire during the Japanese attack.
Film opens with views of goosestepping German, Italian, and Japanese soldiers during parade reviews in their respective countries. Emperor Hirohito, on a white horse. American battleships burning in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur decorating a soldier in Manila, Philippines. Air raid sirens sounding in Manila and residents hurrying to take cover. Heavy black smoke rising from a bombed site and emergency vehicles responding and rushing to several bombed and burning locations. A burning rickshaw amidst other bombing rubble and bodies of victims. U.S. Army General MacArthur greeted by Australian officials at his headquarters in Brisbane, Australia. Sign reads: Headquarters UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES in Australia. American flag flying on tall flagpole. View from ship underway in supply convoy. A battleship seen on horizon and a destroyer passing the camera ship. U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the "Lend Lease Act" of 1941. A U.S. industrial plant with four tall stacks emitting smoke. A steam locomotive belching steam. A locomotive pulling an open car and some tank cars. New 1941 Plymouth automobiles coming off a production line. A new M3 Medium Tank in a U.S. factory. View of Liberty Ships, including the "Zebulon Pike" and the "Henry Knox" under construction at the California Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Terminal Island, California. U.S. Navy Destroyers constructed at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey. One is being launched, next to DD-446 (the USS Radford). A formation of U.S. Navy aircraft including Curtiss SBC Helldiver scout bombers and Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers. A tight formation of U.S. Army Douglas B-18 Bolo medium bombers in flight. A formation of U.S. Army Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft in flight. Closeup of a U.S. Army Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight. Several huge gun barrels for guns under construction at a U.S. war plant. Large artillery shells lined up in a manufacturing plant. U.S. Army M3 Medium tanks under construction at a factory. Steam and smoke rising from a U.S. industrial plant. Aerial view of open pit iron mine. Sparks shooting up inside a steel plant. A virtual "forest" of oil derricks in the Western U.S. Coal being transported by railway. View from stern of a warship in a convoy. An Atlanta-class light cruiser leading three destroyers at sea. Transport ships in convoys to places like Australia, Britain, and the Middle East. Troops on a pier near a large transport ship. A stack of wartime supplies on a pier next to a ship destined for Russia. Glimpse of wake from a U.S. warship having triple guns astern. Silhouette of a U.S. Navy Enterprise-class Aircraft carrier, with an aircraft taking off from her deck. The aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga. U.S. Army soldiers marching on parade, followed by numerous jeeps with machine guns mounted in their rears. Young men being drafted into the U.S. military. A draft lottery being conducted. New recruits doing calisthenics. Trucks pulling artillery pieces. B-18 Bolo bombers flying over U.S. tanks. Closeup of M3 tank. Cavalry fording a stream. Soldiers on motorcycles. Troops crossing a pontoon bridge. A loaded troop ship. A troop transport at Newfoundland. Sentry in Trinidad. Troops encamped in Bermuda.Troopship docked in Greenland. Troops disembarking in Iceland. Formations of Curtis P-36 Hawk aircraft. Douglas DC-2 aircraft factory. P-36s with engines running. M3 tank suspended on factory crane. Officials of Pan American nations siding with Allies. Allied troops including Dutch, Belgian, Yugoslav, Greek, Czech, Filipino, Polish, Norwegian, Free French, Australian, New Zealand, South African and Canadian. British warships. British Hawker Tempest aircraft. British commandos. Russian troops on parade. Chinese troops on the Great Wall of China.
A Japanese propaganda film on mistreatment of Filipinos by the United States. Filipino soldiers join the U.S. in battle against the Japanese in Manila, Philippines during World War II. Fighting at a battlefield. Explosions and smoke on the battlefield. A soldier sitting and another standing near him. They talk. The soldier who is standing walks away and talks to the one sitting. He comes back and sits down. Another soldier approaches and says something. The two soldiers smile. He gives them a news. They become sad. They salute. One of the soldiers is ordered to join the C Company, 1st Battalion. He bids goodbye and leaves. Soldiers in prone position. The soldier standing near them. A white flag is raised by the enemy. Soldiers crouch forward. An explosion occurs. The soldiers run.
A Japanese propaganda film during World War 2 on mistreatment of Filipinos by the United States. Aerial view of Manila, Philippines during World War II. Manila Defense Headquarters. Japanese soldiers guard buildings and bridges. Soldiers in front of an officer. A notification near a sandbagged bunker. Soldiers patrol in the streets. Children look at the soldiers from behind a picket fence. They open a gate and go out. A soldier patrols a street at night. Two soldiers talk and go in different ways to patrol. A soldier runs. He tells his officer that he has caught two thieves who were trying to rob a Filipino couple. Two children listen to what he is saying. The next day, children under a tree. The two children recount the incident of the previous night. Other children listen. A girl on a swing listens. A Japanese soldier and a child shake hands.
Invasion of Manila, Philippines by Japanese troops during World War II. Japanese troops arrive at a shore. They fire rifles and machine guns. Smoke in the foreground. Damaged buildings and a church. Japanese tanks and infantry advances through jungles into Manila.
Landmarks and activities of people in Manila, Philippines before World War II. Aerial view of the city. Buildings and houses along the sides of a street. Mountains in the background. Towers of San Agustin Church in Intramuros and the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila. Cyclists, horse-drawn kalesas, and pedestrians on a street in Quiapo district. The towers of San Sebastian Church. Filipino civilians attend a Roman Catholic mass. A plaque reads “Roman Catholic Cathedral of Manila”. Nuns and civilians walking outside a church in Manila. Old Filipino woman shielding herself with a fan. A Filipino woman holding her son. Church bells ring. Monuments in Manila. Bonifacio Monument or Monumento (596 Monumento Rotonda, Caloocan, 1401 Metro Manila) in Caloocan, Philippines. People on the streets around the Rizal Monument (1225 Roxas Blvd, Ermita, Manila, 1000 Metro Manila).