United States navy fighting the Japanese. Map locates places where General MacArthur has visited. General on the deck of ship accompanied by other officials. He smokes cigar. The Navy bombards Japanese positions on Leyte. Landing craft reach the beaches. General MacArthur and President Osmena wade ashore. United States troops advance on the island. Destroyed buildings in the area due to bombardment. Civilians in tents. U.S. troops along with MacArthur and other officials stand outside a building and the flag hoisting ceremony takes place. (World War II period).
The Allied campaign across New Guinea and onward to the Philippines during World War 2. U.S. warships firing their guns at night. Flashes illuminate the blackness. Bombs dropping from an aircraft bomb bay. Bombs exploding on stretch of jungle near water. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 bomber in flight View rearward from very low flying USAAF bomber as it bombs it drops explode behind. U.S. troops making amphibious assault on New Guinea. Map showing path of Allied attacks from Australia, across New Guinea from Port Moresby to Buna and on to the Admiralty Islands, cutting off Japanese-held Rabaul, New Britain. Map shows Allied forces moving towards Japanese strongholds at Wewak and along the North shore of New Guinea and bypassing Wewak to strike at Hollandia. General Douglas MacArthur is seen aboard a U.S. warship conferring with American and Philippine officers. Annimated map shows Allied assaults on Japanese positions along the coast from Hollandia, to Warde, Biak, and beyond, stepping along towards the Philippines. Views of numerous fallen Japanese soldiers numbering more than 150 thousand dead. Crosses in battlefield cemetery at graves of some of the more than 13 thousand Allied military who lost their lives during the campaign. A soldier paying respects at one of the gravesites. Admiral Chester Nimitz with members of his staff at his headquarters in Hawaii. U.S. Navy F4F aircraft launching from an American aircraft carrier. American aircraft bombing Japanese positions on an atoll. U.S. warships bombarding Japanese positions with their heavy guns. Admiral Nimitz standing with Admiral William Halsey. More Navy gunfire and amphibious assault scenes. Map showing places where Allied forces had to battle the Japanese, including, Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, Kwajalein, in the Marshals, Saipan, and Guam in the Marianas, and Palau to complete the "bridging" of the Pacific to the doorstep of the Philippines.
U.S. aircraft in flight over the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The U.S. Navy F-6F Hellcat aircraft in formation flight. U.S. flag flutters atop a flag pole in the foreground. U.S. Navy TBM Avengers in flight. Rockets fired by the aircraft. The rockets striking the ground. A small ship strafed near the shoreline. Japanese fighters on the ground. Several landing craft circle a transport. A wave of landing craft approach the beach. Landing craft head on to the beach.
Australian prisoners of war rescued at sea near the Philippines by crews of USS Sealion (SS-315) and USS Pampanito (SS-383) submarines during World War II. The survivors had been aboard the Rakuyo Maru, a Japanese prison ship that was sunk by U.S. forces (including the Sealion and Pampanito). Crew members on deck of the submarine. Other crew members in the sea assisting the survivors who cling to wrecked parts of the ship. Survivors adrift with life belt. Crew members pull them aboard. Exhausted survivors on the deck are covered with fuel oil. Crew members clean off the fuel oil.
The Philippine Operations during the Battle of Leyte in World War II. General Douglas MacArthur, Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, and George S. Kenny with President Sergio Osmeña in landing crafts en route to Red Beach in Palo, Leyte. The party walks through water or wades onto the beach. They look at a map and converse with each other.
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) painted in camouflage measure 33 design 10a, underway in Manila Bay, Philippines, during World War 2. United States Navy TBF Avenger torpedo bombers circle above the USS Ticonderoga. An SB2C Helldiver lands on the deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6). An FM-2 Wildcat attempts to land on a CVL, overshoots, and hits an FM-2 parked on the forward flight deck. It shears off a wing of the parked plane, and tumbles into the ocean.